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...
The challenge with any Hugo Wolf collection is to be the vehicle of the songs, rather than the victim of...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2012
The Estonians’ latest calling card (recorded in 2009) is a highly satisfying, generously filled a cappella programme of mostly little-heard...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2012
A prime virtue of Hyperion’s latest song intégrale is that it precisely documents Liszt’s bewildering variety of revisions and resettings....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2012
Johannes Eccard’s might not be a household name but he did leave a tune that is justly famous, setting Luther’s...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2012
Although well represented in the catalogue, there is always room for another strong, heartfelt performance of Dvořák’s first major sacred...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2012
This, the fourth recording of an early Renaissance Requiem setting I’ve reviewed in as many months, follows closely on the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2012
>‘Life and Breath’ has a pleasing choice of liturgical and sacred texts, and René Clausen’s word-setting is always appropriate and...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 09/2012
The magnificent series of recordings by The Cardinall’s Musick under Andrew Carwood has brought the sacred music of William Byrd...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2012
After three successful volumes of ‘Tragédiennes’, Véronique Gens follows in the great line of French-speaking sopranos by committing to disc...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 09/2012
It wasn’t quite Der glorreiche Augenblick. The Congress of Vienna in September 1814 was dampened by Napoleon (who had also...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 09/2012
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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