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 Key Ensemble is a new chamber choir, formed in Finland as recently as 2005, yet is a group of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2012
A very interesting programme of choral and instrumental pieces. It’s always good to hear Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, and Julius Harrison’s...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 03/2012
The music of Cyril Scott has enjoyed something of a renaissance in recent times. Between them Chandos, Dutton and Marco...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 03/2012
Schubert himself recognised that his song-cycle Die Winterreise was special, urging a friend, Josef von Spaun, ‘Come to Schober’s today....
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 03/2012
With this disc, Christopher Maltman and Graham Johnson complete their trio of Schubert song-cycles from the Wigmore Hall. Actually, Schwanengesang...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2012
English composer Tarik O’Regan has collected a large and enthusiastic following among choirs on both sides of the Atlantic. As...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 03/2012
Only minutes into my first recital encounter with Christianne Stotijn (Berg, Schubert and Wolf, 6/06), her Lieder credentials were secure....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2012
Last year was a big one for the Canadian mezzo Julie Boulianne. Coinciding with her debut at the Met in...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2012
James MacMillan would seem to be delving further and further into his Catholic roots; not so much a regression as...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 03/2012
John Høybye (b1939) is one of those composers one hears about but rarely hears, so this spotlight on his work...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue:
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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