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...
It might seem shallow to complain about the titling and packaging of a disc but the commerciality of this one...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2012
Although three of Aho’s to-date 15 symphonies still await release from BIS (Nos 5 – available on Ondine – 6...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2012
Underpinning so much of Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s approach to Bach is identifying the provenance and essence of dramatic character,...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2012
Having been more than usually critical of this all-male vocal quartet’s previous offering (Avie, 8/10), it’s good to report positively...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2012
The stereotype of the 18th-century castrato is a preening peacock enamoured of his own virtuosity and likely to throw a...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2012
For all of her vocal cultivation, personal magnetism and musical intelligence, Miah Persson seems not to be a born recitalist:...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2012
Collegium 1704 and its director Václav Luks have made several fine recordings of Zelenka’s sacred music for Dresden’s Catholic court...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2012
Christopher Tye was born around 1505 and, like his contemporary Thomas Tallis, he composed music for both the Anglican and...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2012
Born in Germany in 1837, dying in 1922, Hans Sommer saw music evolve from Schumann to Schoenberg, Wagner to Webern....
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 08/2012
One of the glories of the CD catalogue has been that an unknown composer backed by a devotee can get...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 08/2012
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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