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 real rarity here is The Coming of Christ. This is a play by John Masefield, commissioned by George Bell,...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2012
Really, the enterprise of Hyperion knows no bounds. Here is a disc devoted to songs by Michael Head, who is...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2012
Filmed in the evocative setting of the Gothic Grote Kerk in Naarden, with its magnificent painted wooden vaults, this is...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2012
The remarkable thing about this first volume of the collected Delius songs, quite apart from the quality of Mark Stone’s...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 03/2012
Natalie Dessay returns to recording French mélodies for the first time since she made a few cameo appearances on the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2012
Antoni Wit is proving to be one of Naxos’s greatest assets, a conductor of strong personality who puts musical values...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 03/2012
What a curious first impression Marie-Nicole Lemieux’s Berlioz/Wagner/Mahler recital makes in the wake of her fine Schumann disc (Naïve, 4/10)...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2012
Both of these new recordings adopt the one-voice-per-part method (‘OVPP’), which means concertino solo singers perform throughout but are reinforced...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2012
Christian Immler has long championed the songs of so-called entartete (‘degenerate’) composers forced into exile by the Nazis. He and...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2012
This release reprises the sumptuous production values of Alia Vox’s recent projects centred on Jerusalem and on the Borgias. When...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2012
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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