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 is one of the first fruits of the musical partnership between the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and its new principal...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2012
Reviewing can be a frustrating business sometimes: recordings that bode so well on paper but disappoint in reality, or others...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2012
The disc opens with one of Thomas Weelkes’s most familiar anthems, Hosanna to the Son of David, in a performance...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2012
Forget the unctuous title: this documentary, broadcast last year in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Victoria’s death, strikes the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2012
The al fresco exuberance of ‘Bei dir allein’ gets this recital off to a delectable start: Camilla Tilling’s vernal tone...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2012
Burdened inwardness has long been Matthias Goerne’s hallmark. Here, even more than in his live recording with Brendel, he seems...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2012
As Purcell song programmes go, this one is not easy listening. Perhaps only the Evening Hymn would count as a...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2012
In January 1744 Porpora was appointed maestro di coro at the Ospedale dei Derelitti (the ‘Ospedaletto’), one of the four...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue:
As the earliest surviving example of a famous genre, a certain mystique attaches to Ockeghem’s Requiem, which now boasts an...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2012
Anglicised Haydn? Worry not if the ballad on the first track seems a travesty, the finale of Haydn’s Symphony No...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2012
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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