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...
Almost six years on from the release of a handsome account of Schwanengesang (6/16), James Rutherford and Eugene Asti are...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2022
As David Patrick Stearns noted in his ‘The Musician and the Score’ interview with Iestyn Davies in the last issue,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2022
This may sound impossibly recondite, but I have been waiting a decade for a recording of this work to appear....
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2022
‘A piece for electric guitar and choir’ sounds a little like one of those random combinations one might pick out...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2022
You can always rely on the veteran Italian baritone Sergio Foresti for interesting Baroque repertoire. And following hot on the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2022
This is decidedly the oddest contribution to the Josquin year. The three performers here are beyond praise: María Cristina Kiehr...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 02/2022
Haydn conceived The Creation on the grandest possible scale, as evidenced by the 200-odd performers in the 1799 public premiere....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2022
This appealing album of fin de siècle works – mostly for solo voice and chorus – by Claude Debussy and...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2022
Circlesong is an extended cantata for upper voices, mixed choir, two pianos and percussion, and is a revision dating from...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2022
The emotional core of this album is Dieterich Buxtehude’s Klag-Lied. It’s a sublime performance from Arcangelo under Jonathan Cohen, in...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 02/2022
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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