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...
A tale of two Masses, one based on a madrigal, the other on a motet. Cinquecento’s latest release, coupling Annibale...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 06/2024
This completes Blue Heron’s two-disc set of Ockeghem’s complete songs (1/20), coming just four years after the parallel collection from...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 06/2024
George de La Hèle (1547‑86) was one of a last wave of composers from the Low Countries to occupy a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2024
Józef Kozłowski (or Osip Kozlovsky, 1757-1831) was born in Warsaw but gravitated to St Petersburg, where he became music master...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2024
This set preserves a live concert of Haydn’s oratorio masterpiece from a couple of summers ago. On its own terms,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2024
When I was an undergraduate, discussions about Handel’s nationality raged, before attention turned to his sexuality. Both debates are now...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 06/2024
To mark this year’s centenary of Fauré’s death, Stéphane Degout and Alain Planès survey five of his song-cycles in this...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2024
Bach composed four cantatas for Ascension Day in Leipzig, and here are two of them complemented by the premiere recording...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2024
I hail the advent of a new miniseries from Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants, having already found their previous...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 06/2024
This is a debut release for harpsichordist Melody Lin, showcasing her impressive finger dexterity in a selection of the instrument’s...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2024
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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