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...
The strongest features of this latest recording from The Sixteen are its conception and the performances of Lassus’s music, the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2012
Hard on the heels of Simax’s issue of his solo violin piece Yr (5/12) comes a whole disc devoted to...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2012
I Fagiolini’s disc of Striggio’s works for 40 voices (on which the Mass Ecco sì beato giorno was given its...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2012
In his 1968 essay ‘Choral Music and False Consciousness’, Theodor Adorno declared that ‘the conviviality of the choir engenders an...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2012
The Danish National Vocal Ensemble face some pretty stiff competition with this disc of unaccompanied Poulenc but they do not...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2012
Lassus’s biography certainly lends itself to the multi-volume series promised here: there’s incident, truculence, pathos at the end, and a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2012
Will only male choirs do for Howells’s sacred music? So previous commentators have insisted, though only the most rigid epigone...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2012
Somewhere between a masque and a fully fledged oratorio, Esther is a problematic work. John Arbuthnot’s adaptation of Racine’s play...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2012
During the autumn of 2008, Vladimir Ashkenazy devised a three-week Elgar festival with the Sydney SO, culminating in two performances...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2012
The Convivium Singers are a 30-strong mixed-voice group, formed in 2009, youthfully fresh-toned and evenly balanced. They tackle Dove’s distinctive...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2012
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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