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...
Geistliche Chor-Music (Dresden, 1648) was designed to prove the essential requirement of a full knowledge of the science of contrapuntal...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2021
With 100-plus Winterreise recordings on the market, what place could any newcomer occupy in the company of Richard Tauber, Lotte...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2021
‘Occasional music’ – the term sounds as dated as an occasional table. Perhaps that’s why, with the exception of Come,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2021
Thanks to the likes of Hamish Milne, Geoffrey Tozer and Marc-André Hamelin, Nikolay Medtner’s piano music has reached a wider...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2021
Because of his ‘top-dog’ status among early Renaissance composers, questions of attribution loom particularly large in Josquin research. The issue...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2021
François-Joseph Gossec’s Messe des morts of 1760 was one of his first breakthrough works. With its rich orchestration, it soon...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2021
The overall sound made by the Fieri Consort and Chelys Consort of Viols is bliss. The viols glisten with the...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2021
With Riddle Songs, Stef Connor has composed an album of songs setting Old English texts. Since no music survives from...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2021
It is a tragedy that Josef Lhevinne, indisputably one of the greatest pianists of the last century, recorded so little....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2021
The sound of the bandoneón – penetrating, plaintive and pulsating with emotion – is the sound of the Argentine tango...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2021
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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