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...
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MONTEVERDI L'Orfeo (Toro)
It is both in keeping with a sense of attention to historical detail, as well as something of a personal...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 12/2020
MESSAGER Fortunio (Langrée)
André Messager’s a bit of a rarity in the opera house these days. The work you’re most likely to encounter...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2020
HAHN L’île du rêve (Niquet)
Hahn’s ‘Polynesian idyll’ was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in a double bill with Delibes’s Le roi l’a dit in...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2020
ENNA Klepoatra (Gustafsson)
August Enna (1859-1939) was raised on a Danish island by a shoemaker, a striking parallel with Hans Christian Andersen were...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2020
BOISMORTIER Les Voyages de l'Amour (Vashegyi)
Sometimes dubbed ‘the French Telemann’, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier was both admired and mocked for what a contemporary versifier ambiguously...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2020
Sacred Treasures of Christmas; Sacred Treasures of Spain
Between them, England’s cathedral choirs and Oxbridge choral foundations have an effective monopoly on polyphony with trebles on the top...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2020
Fatma Said: El Nour
‘Wit, spice and plenty of polish’ was Neil Fisher’s five-star assessment (The Times) of Fatma Said’s 2018 Wigmore Hall recital....
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2020
Heaven Full of Stars (Vasari Singers)
Over 40 years the Vasari Singers and founder-conductor Jeremy Backhouse have built up an impressive reputation and catalogue, with recordings...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2020
Christmas in Puebla
‘Christmas in Puebla’ is to your traditional festive classical album as a spicy, aromatic glass of mulled wine is to...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2020
A Ceremony of Carols (Owen Rees)
Companion pieces are everything. How you frame a work can change how we hear it and how we listen –...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2020
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Tchaikovsky’s Empire: A New Life of Russia’s Greatest Composer (by Simon Morrison)
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
Review - Berl Senofsky: American Virtuoso
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Review - Max Rostal: Concert Tours 1956-1965
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Review - The Complete Symphonic, Concertante & Sacred Music Recordings (Orch dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Antonio Pappano)
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
Review - recent Mengelberg releases from the archives
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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