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...
It may have been preferable to widen the net for the second volume of music from the Eton Choirbook (all...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2013
All the music documented on this second instalment of the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra’s ‘Black Manhattan’ was written before Louis Armstrong...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2013
Such diametrically opposed Winterreise performances here. In his second recording of the piece, Wolfgang Holzmair has an insider’s long experience...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2013
Schubert once reportedly remarked to a friend: ‘Do you know any cheerful music? I don’t.’ If he did utter these...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2013
This is not, strictly speaking, a recording of Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle. In 1867 the composer orchestrated the work, not...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2013
The Elizabethan Peter Philips has garnered a respectable discography over the last 20 years. His motet collection for double choir,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2013
Even by the standards we normally expect of Ockeghem, the Missa Prolationum is at first glance craggy and uninviting; but...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 06/2013
Helene Gjerris has been singing Per Nørgård’s songs for more than 25 years and this disc is the fruit of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2013
This 2010 studio recording of Frank Martin’s ballet Cinderella is marketed by Claves as a period piece, with prominent photographs...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2013
Tenebrae have already recorded an earlier work by the Moscow-born composer Alexander Levine, Prayers for Mankind (1/11), on texts by...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2013
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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