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 culmination of his choral essays in symphony (The Black Knight), oratorio (The Light of Life) and dramatic cantata (King...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 05/2024
By my count this is the fifth complete recording of Brumel’s fabled 12-voice Earthquake Mass, so called because of the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2024
In July 2022 the Chapel Choir of Trinity College Cambridge travelled to Paris to record in the church of Saint-Eustache...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2024
I admire many recordings by Nicholas McGegan, particularly his volumes of Scarlatti cantatas with Arcadian Academy (Conifer, 6/97) and his...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2024
Ludmila Berlinskaya and Arthur Ancelle are a formidably well-equipped duo whose acquaintance I first made back in 2017 with their...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2024
When the Handel (now Handel Hendrix) House opened in 2001, it could make use of only the top floors of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2024
The brilliant Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan treats us to yet another superb set of the Ysaÿe Solo Sonatas, vibrant, forceful,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2024
Listen to Josef Hofmann’s 1923 recording of Louis Brassin’s transcription of Wagner’s Magic Fire Music and you’ll hear one of...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2024
Composed in 1955, the manuscript of Sorabji’s two-hour-plus Toccata terza had been missing for decades when it was rediscovered in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2024
Here is the first of four planned discs devoted to Ravel’s piano works that promises to be painstakingly comprehensive, with...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2024
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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