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 is not a new idea to build a Monteverdi Vespers (Venetian) that is not the Monteverdi Vespers (Mantuan), but...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2023
This intriguing recital brings us music from a period that is very well documented on record but much of what...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2023
‘Pray, good people, be civil, I am the Protestant whore’: so said Nell Gwyn, displaying the wit for which she...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2023
This meticulously curated programme from Ruby Hughes could be called ‘The Quiet Album’. It intersperses Bach sarabandes for solo keyboard...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2023
Here’s yet another fresh slant on the glorious Five Mystical Songs to mark Vaughan Williams’s 150th birthday, this time with...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2023
Having provided the acoustic space for Parker Ramsay’s impressive debut album – the Goldberg Variations in his own arrangement for...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 01/2023
Several difficulties arise in recording Machaut’s Remede de Fortune. The first is that it is basically a narrative, over 4000...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2023
Hector Berlioz’s six songs (1840-41) setting the poetry of his friend Théophile Gautier were published together merely for the sake...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2023
On this welcome complete collection of Milton Babbitt’s music for high voice and piano, the signal work for me is...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 01/2023
Since making standard-setting recordings of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas (7/99, 12/99), Rachel Podger has returned intermittently to the solo violin...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2023
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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