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...
These three 20-minute cantatas, dating from 1709, 1712 and 1716 respectively, receive their world premiere commercial recordings with this release....
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2012
Those who shudder with disbelief at the idea of Telemann composing over 40 passions should bear in mind that Bach’s...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2012
Though Dmitri Hvorostovsky revisits repertoire he recorded in his 1991 ‘Russian Romances’ disc in the heady months following his sensational...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2012
This is the third volume in the impressive coverage of all Poulenc’s songs masterminded by the superb pianist Malcolm Martineau....
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue:
Many readers will know the recitative, trio and chorus that begins ‘When Jesus our Lord was born in Bethlehem’. It...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2012
A loose miscellany rather than a defined cycle, Des Knaben Wunderhorn has ‘grow’d like Topsy’ in recent years. Michael Gielen...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2012
For my money, Capilla Flamenca is currently among the top two or three ensembles for early Renaissance polyphony, and Pierre...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2012
Mark Stone here offers the second volume of his project to record Delius’s songs complete. With his consistently sensitive singing,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2012
This is not the grand, passionate Cherubini of post-Revolutionary Paris, admired by Beethoven, Weber and (more ambiguously) Berlioz, but a...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue:
Nicholas Phan’s debut recital recording in an all-Britten programme initially seems strategically quixotic. Though American singers do justice to Britten,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns 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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