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...
The plight of migrants crossing the Mediterranean becomes a new Raft of the Medusa in Philippe Manoury’s evening-length, mixed-media piece,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2021
Heinrich Isaac (c1450-1517) is one of Josquin’s greatest contemporaries. He had a glittering career working for Lorenzo de’ Medici in...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2021
Recordings of music by Philipp Heinrich Erlebach – the much-admired Kapellmeister of the court at Rudolstadt from 1681 to his...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2021
It was only a matter of time before Les Cris de Paris got around to the Cries of London. In...
Reviewed in issue 08/2021
Gli Angeli Genève perform the Mass in B minor with 10 singers (six concertists and four ripienists) and an orchestra...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2021
Lise de la Salle is no stranger to mixing and matching composers and eras, as her half a dozen CDs...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2021
I was delighted to be able to give a warm welcome to this pianist’s debut recording back in the long-ago...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2021
Listening to a Franz Halász album is like biting into a Granny Smith. The playing is always fresh, crisp, juicy...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2021
Like most of the rest of the world, viola player Hiyoli Togawa confronted solitude, anxiety and loneliness during the pandemic...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2021
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a musician in possession of talent and imagination must be in want of...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2021
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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