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...
Schumann’s choral music is perhaps the most neglected section of this most – often wilfully – misunderstood composer’s output. It’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2013
This CD is a valuable addition to the John Rutter discography and shows that the composer is more than simply...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 02/2013
One result of Mendelssohn’s bicentenary in 2009 was a commission by Stuttgart’s International Bach Academy to the Finnish composer Jaakko...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2013
James MacMillan’s brief unaccompanied Mass for Durham Cathedral is here surrounded by a motley selection of carols, motets, anthems and...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 02/2013
Now that Tafelmusik has started up its own label, hopefully the Canadian period-instrument orchestra will return to recording new projects...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2013
The songs of Maurice Greene are not exactly well known, any more than are most English art-songs from Handel’s time....
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2013
As far as one can tell, the 400th anniversary of Giovanni Gabrieli’s death seems not to have attracted much attention,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2013
Apart from as a composer (and writer), it has been a while since Paul Spicer’s last published outing. That was,...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2013
Though one of the more talented and important figures of the French mid-Baroque, André Campra has never quite broken through...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2013
The failure of television companies to broadcast the premiere of Britten’s War Requiem is deeply regrettable. However confused and messy...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman 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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