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...
I’ve never been quite convinced by Schoenberg’s 1920 chamber reduction of the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. True, the sparse scoring...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2012
At first sight, ‘Songs of War’ seems an odd title for this collection of songs by, mostly, 20th-century English composers....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2012
Heinz Valk called the 1989 liberation of the Baltic states from Soviet tyranny the Singing Revolution. Now, 20 or more...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2012
There are many reasons why this is a superlative issue. First of course is the wonderful but rarely heard music...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 02/2012
This is a carefully planned programme of songs from the 1880s to the 1920s, some of them not well known....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2012
The 40th anniversary celebrations for the King’s Singers in 2008 produced three new works of exceptional quality, The Stolen Child...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2012
Californian plainsong? That’s what you get in Lou Harrison’s 23-minute Mass in 11 sections commissioned by the St Cecilia Society...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue:
Florilegium open their latest dip into Vivaldi – there have been three others before, though none too recent – with...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2012
Erkki-Sven Tüür is surely one of the most consistently high-quality composers around. Even relatively early works, such as his Insula...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2012
I’m not sure what inspired Magnificat’s director, Philip Cave, to fly the flag for Philippe Rogier but this recording vindicates...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2012
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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