Book review - Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium (by Caroline Potter)
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Following closely on the outstanding Chandos disc of choral music by Parry with royal connections comes this disc of Parry’s...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 03/2013
Admirer as I am of Roxanna Panufnik’s work, I am suspicious of creations intended to ‘build bridges between different faiths’....
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2013
In her previous recording (Orfeo), Anne Schwanewilms found a surprising breadth of expression between Richard Strauss’s operatic heroines and his...
Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 03/2013
Unquestionably the State Choir Latvia is a magnificent body of singers. They encompass a vast dynamic range and deliver words...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 03/2013
This delightful disc might have been billed as ‘Mendelssohn the Reviver’, since under the influence of Friedrich Zelter, his composition...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2013
The Amsterdam Sinfonietta, directed from the first violin by Scot Candida Thompson, start strongly with a Les illuminations in which...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2013
Following their Bach B minor Mass (8/12), Philippe Herreweghe and his team have produced an equally fine account of Beethoven’s...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2013
Those following Sigiswald Kuijken’s journey will recall its premise of a single cantata for each Sunday and High Day –...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2013
For his first solo piano CD, Michael McHale has programmed 19 short works featuring classical and contemporary Irish composers, works...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2013
Many years ago I noted an element of caution in Imogen Cooper’s playing. Her way with Debussy’s ‘Poissons d’or’ in...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2013
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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