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...
Soile Isokoski sings Richard Strauss almost as a singer of the composer’s own time. Recordings of his songs from the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2012
Last year I reviewed this ensemble in Schütz’s Op 1, his only book of madrigals (8/11). My reservations stemmed there...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2012
Before the First World War rendered all things German anathema, Schumann’s a cappella works, like Mendelssohn’s and Brahms’s, were choral...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2012
Rather than group their Schubert recital around poets, Werner Güra and Christoph Berner here chart a Schubertian ‘Seven ages of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2012
Ib Nørholm (b1931) is a prominent Danish composer whose commitment to polystylistics came early and wholeheartedly. He never disavowed the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2012
This new recording of Mozart’s ever-popular Coronation Mass appears shortly after one from Tewkesbury Abbey (Delphian, 1/12). Both recordings feature...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2012
This is an attractive selection of Janáček’s vocal pieces, and a wide-ranging one. The Dvořák arrangements were mostly made in...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 05/2012
Bo Hansson (b1950) is a jazz musician who turned to classical music in mid-career, and whose choral music has met...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue:
Aminta e Fillide was probably composed for Handel’s principal Roman patron, the Marquis Ruspoli (whose descendent Princess Claudia Ruspoli is...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2012
Rarely have I spent so disagreeable an hour as in listening to this excellently sung and produced new disc. Unless...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards 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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