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...
In 17th-century Naples, the delineation between church, palace and street music was deliciously and dangerously porous. This mix of sacred...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2022
Twenty one years and nearly 60 releases in, and still there are new series to open up in Naïve’s Vivaldi...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2022
This release constitutes the fourth officially available recording of Verdi’s Requiem conducted by Riccardo Muti. It’s a very welcome addition...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2022
Curiously titled and more curiously conceived, this album of Mussorgsky songs and solo piano music is performed on a level...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2022
In 2017 master of madrigals Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano ripped up the rulebook with ‘Night – Stories of Lovers...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2022
Recorded at two concerts in consecutive years of the Salzburg Festival, this album sees the Latvian star mezzo Elīna Garanča...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2022
Linn’s survey of James MacMillan’s choral music with the Scottish professional chamber choir Cappella Nova has now reached its fourth...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2022
This is a fine and enjoyable debut from yet another outstanding young pair of UK song interpreters. Rather than offering...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2022
Any new release from the superb Latvian Radio Choir under Sigvards Kļava is bound to be noteworthy and this performance...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2022
Coming of age as professional musicians in the middle of a global pandemic must be tough, but it scarcely seems...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2022
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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