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...
This recital consists for the most part of occasional pieces, a series of adieux; the general tenor of the texts...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2013
Part-books were the standard method of printing polyphony in the Renaissance: each publication constituted a set, usually with one voice...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2013
The Polish label Sarton has issued a few volumes exploring Baroque church music associated with Gdan´sk (Danzig). Thuringian composer Johann...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2013
Many an aspiring composer today would relish the lucrative market for sheet music afforded by the late 19th and early...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2013
This is the fifth and last of Danacord’s fine series of ‘Delius Masterworks’. After discs of Danish, Norwegian, English and...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2013
The challenge to the performers in much of Bob Chilcott’s music is to make it sound warm, expressive and purposeful...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue:
Richard Barrett’s cycle Dark Matter, completed in 2003 and incorporating several pieces for chamber ensemble and voice, is an 80-minute...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2013
Nostalgia, alienation, soulful confession and cool cerebral logic: that’s the cross section of American music presented here, most of it...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2013
Fresh from the high-wire and high jinks of John Eliot Gardiner’s riveting and penetrating account of the Motets comes a...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2013
This enjoyable disc features arias with an obbligato part for the violoncello piccolo, thought to be a smaller version of...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2013
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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