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...
The ancient English choral tradition meets contemporary American choral music in ‘Rolling River’, the latest recording from Graham Ross and...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2023
‘Maria Mater Meretrix’ is a concept album that effectively explores the male-created female stereotypes or ‘classical female phenomenologies’ (as the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2023
To record one volume of Anglican canticles may be regarded as a misfortune. To record three (four, once the series...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2023
Here’s a most welcome and hugely enterprising anthology, which gathers together all of Edmund Rubbra’s published songs featuring piano or...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2023
Damijan Močnik’s music has not so far been familiar to me, but he is a very active figure in the...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2023
Leonardo García Alarcón uses the recent HHA edition (2014) of Solomon, although departs surreptitiously from Handel’s orchestration several times. The...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2023
Beatus vir is classic second-period Górecki, written three years after the notorious Symphony No 3, in 1979, and receiving its...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2023
Poor Ludwig Daser (c1525-1589). If you’ve heard anything about him it was probably that he once retired as Kapellmeister to...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2023
The descriptor symphonie dramatique for Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette is a bit of a misnomer; it’s neither a symphony nor...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2023
No falsettist worth his salt can resist these two sublime cantatas, saturated with echt-Lutheran life-weariness and death-longing. Barnaby Smith, best...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2023
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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