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...
Duparc’s invitation to travel is an apt starting point for an enterprising programme with multiple explorations. The programme encompasses French...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2022
One of the difficulties facing anybody who wishes to perform the German Minnesang repertory is that almost all the surviving...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/2022
I am enormously fond of a good programme concept and this debut album from early music ensemble Fount & Origin...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2022
‘Castrapolis’ was the name coined by novelist Dominique Fernandez for 18th-century Naples – a city that was home to a...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2022
Giaches de Wert’s scant discography is no reflection of his music’s intrinsic worth, or its influence on later composers (not...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2022
This is a potentially useful round-up of all Façade’s completed material a century on from its first composition. It contains...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2022
The lion’s share of the fourth – and final – instalment in Albion Records’ project to record Vaughan Williams’s complete...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2022
As winter creeps in, you could do worse than seek synergy and solace in the amassed depressions, longings and forebodings...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2022
Schubert scholars have had a field day interpreting his strange 1822 tale of death, exile and reconciliation, titled ‘Mein Traum’...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2022
Rossini’s Messa di Gloria, commissioned for performance on the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows in Naples in March 1820,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2022
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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