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...
Ravel’s Shéhérazade and the five Rückert songs by Mahler offer the more conventional pleasures on this disc but Madgalena Kožená’s...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2012
As three works are listed on this superbly recorded new Ondine release, buyers may be surprised to learn that, in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2012
These are the first two CDs in Regent’s ‘A Year at…’ series. Each disc takes a liturgical and musical journey...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 05/2012
We are enjoined by this fine recital to bring nuance to distinctions between sacred and secular, and what we sometimes...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2012
Any disc subtitled ‘Music of Mourning & Consolation’ is not going to be a bundle of laughs. But Paul McCreesh...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2012
‘The Lost Birds’ is how this title translates into English; couple that with its subtitle, ‘The South American Project’, and...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2012
Right from the start this disc sets out to shake preconceptions. The sleeve information is folded within a kind of...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 05/2012
‘The Song of the Siren’ runs the rubric, though the voices in this three-disc set of Neapolitan Baroque songs and...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2012
Anybody who has heard Anu Komsi in Saariaho’s remarkable Leino Songs, or other works written for her, will want to...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 05/2012
For their second disc of Vasks’s choral music on the Finnish Ondine label, the compellingly brilliant Latvian Radio Choir concentrate...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2012
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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