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...
There is liberation in the timelessness of these songs and settings, be they old or brand new. And timelessness is...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2024
Things start ordinarily enough. Cappella Mediterranea under the direction of Leonardo García Alarcón create a mournful sound world, with recorders...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2024
Few composers lived such an exciting and repeatedly life-threatening existence as Stradella. Forced to flee Rome following a series of...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 07/2024
Hard on the heels of the premiere recording of Stanford’s delightful ‘romantic comic opera’ Shamus O’Brien (5/24) comes a comparably...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2024
Every encounter with the chilly depths of Schubert’s Winterreise is like a new beginning, according to Andrè Schuen in the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2024
In their joint booklet note for this release, soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn make a passionate case for...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2024
Born in Bolton and still fondly remembered in his native Lancashire, Thomas Pitfield (1903‑99) could not have wished for more...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2024
The third instalment in Naxos’s survey of Mozart’s Masses alights on three works from the mid-1770s, two of which have...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2024
By the time he was 30, in 1938, Olivier Messiaen had already impressed as a gifted composer of instrumental music...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2024
Heinichen was a pupil at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche of Bach’s predecessors Schelle and Kuhnau. He practiced law briefly until quitting in...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2024
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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