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...
This important new release of a cappella music by Francis Pott draws its title from the final line of Wilfrid...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2012
There have been many recordings of Orff’s ever-popular Carmina Burana but relatively few of the chamber version. Orff made the...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 02/2012
Recordings of the Missa choralis (1865) are thin on the ground. The current benchmark is Matthew Best’s on Hyperion, coupled...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2012
Six months before coming together (with a host of other musicians) to perform Havergal Brian’s Gothic Symphony at last year’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2012
While there is strength to some of Honegger’s works, not least his oratorio Le roi David and the orchestral Pacific...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2012
Anders Eliasson (b1947) has a reputation as something of an outsider in Swedish music. Now in his mid-sixties, he has...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue:
Ton Koopman’s slow-burning project to record Buxtehude’s complete works continues its inexorable path with eight little-known geistliche Konzerte (sacred concertos)....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2012
I hadn’t come across these singers before: they are quite wonderful. Much is explained by the reference in the booklet...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2012
Following the pattern of earlier volumes in his complete Brahms Lied edition, Graham Johnson has again mapped a more-or-less chronological...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2012
My viewing completed, I thought to myself: this has to be the greatest religious work of them all. The ultimate...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan 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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