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...
Irene Scharrer was the soloist on one of the best-selling classical 78s of all time: the Scherzo from Litolff’s Concerto...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2012
This Erika Sunnegårdh aria and song showcase disc is not for the unconverted. Though the programming is ambitious, her colleagues...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2014
DVD recordings of Verdi’s ‘opera in ecclesiastical robes’ have become more commonplace in recent years, the catalogue now boasting (mostly)...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2014
Formerly a professional violinist, the Belgian composer Bram Van Camp (b1980) has established himself as a composer of no mean...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2014
Basle-based Israeli vocal ensemble Profeti della Quinta were worthy winners of the York Early Music International Young Artists Competition in...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2014
The latest disc from Jonathan Cohen’s virtuoso ensemble Arcangelo is a musical love story, complete with lovers’ quarrel (a sword-battle...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2014
This disc gets off to a delightful start with ‘Lob des hohen Verstandes’, where a rustic singing competition between a...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2014
Nicholas Ludford is one of the most intriguing of early Tudor composers, a healthy proportion of whose surviving work has...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2014
Alonso Lobo is principally known today for his motet Versa est in luctum, but the rest of his output isn’t...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2014
Mark Stone uses all his gifts in this splendid collection of John Ireland’s songs to bring out their varied range...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 03/2014
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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