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...
In these wonderful sonatas, the majority of movements are written as three-part counterpoint – the harpsichordist’s two hands plus the...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 01/2013
More than half of this 12-track disc is taken up by four laments, three of which last around 10 minutes....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2013
Rarely do you hear, even in the rarefied world of French mélodie and German Lieder, a baritone who sings with...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 02/2013
This two-CD set is the third of a series devoted to a mid-16th-century group of six choirbooks preserved in the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2013
Robert Dow was a Londoner and an Oxford man who copied the partbooks named after him in the 1580s. It...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2013
This recorded set effectively provides a history of the classics of 20th-century Spanish song in less than 70 minutes. Like...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2013
For his Wigmore recital last February Roderick Williams devised a typically thoughtful, unclichéd programme: a clutch of songs from Wolf’s...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2013
It is difficult to look at the cover of the CD of a setting of excerpts from The Diary of...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2013
Hyperion’s complete coverage of the Richard Strauss songs (begun in Vol 1 with Christine Brewer – 6/05) has rightly received...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 02/2013
My favourite collection of Sibelius choruses is ‘Songs for Male Voice Choir’, peerless singing by YL (Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat – the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2013
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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