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...
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The Psalms (Choir of St John's College, Cambridge)
If I could take only a few forms of music to a desert island, the psalms sung to Anglican Chant...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2022
Vivaldi's Women
La Serenissma’s latest delve into the Vivaldi archives has thrown up a programme full of unfamiliar textures, all helping to...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2022
STEELANT 'Antwerp Requiem ca. 1650'
Although Philippe van Steelant (1611-70) isn’t a household name, his pedigree is hardly insignificant: a scion of a family of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2022
SILVESTROV Requiem Für Larissa (Mustonen)
This is not the first recording of Silvestrov’s Requiem, written in memory of his wife, Larissa Bondenko – it has...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2022
SCHUBERT Schwanengesang (Ian Bostridge)
Rest assured that Ian Bostridge is not nearly as wizened, and the late Lars Vogt wasn’t nearly so eagle-eyed, as...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2022
MONTEVERDI Selva Morale e Spirituale (Koetsveld)
Monteverdi’s monumental last anthology Selva morale e spirituale (Venice, 1641) contains nearly 40 different sacred and spiritual pieces. Most were...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2022
HILDEGARD 'Sacred Chants' (Grace Davidson)
Hildegard of Bingen is now by a massive margin the most often-recorded composer from the years before Byrd and Monteverdi...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2022
GERVAIS Grands Motets pour Louis XV
His opera Hypermnestre may be pronounced ‘the best of the Regency period’ by Grove and others, and the composer himself...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2022
BERLIOZ Requiem (Pappano)
Mixed blessings from this latest attempt to represent Berlioz’s ‘Great Mass’ effectively on disc. Pappano – who brought ‘his’ choir...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2022
Víkingur Ólafsson: From Afar
This is one of those albums that should catch you in the right mood and setting. If it doesn’t, then...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2022
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Tchaikovsky’s Empire: A New Life of Russia’s Greatest Composer (by Simon Morrison)
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
Review - Berl Senofsky: American Virtuoso
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Review - Max Rostal: Concert Tours 1956-1965
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Review - The Complete Symphonic, Concertante & Sacred Music Recordings (Orch dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Antonio Pappano)
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
Review - recent Mengelberg releases from the archives
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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