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...
I’ll get straight to the point and say that this new release from The Sixteen, celebrating the Renaissance tradition of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2024
Here’s the second ‘sequence’ of liturgical music recorded by Westminster Cathedral Choir in the faraway surroundings of Buckfast Abbey, whose...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2024
Robert Hollingworth’s motto for this disc is the question he poses in his introduction: ‘How can so little mean so...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 04/2024
Has John Stainer’s 1887 warhorse ever truly gone out of fashion? This ‘Meditation on the Sacred Passion of the Holy...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
In recent years there has been almost an embarrassment of fine recordings of Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil, better (if erroneously) known...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
This third album from PRJCT Amsterdam is also their Pentatone debut. Pergolesi’s Stabat mater and Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus must be...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024
If you have ever stopped to wonder about that awkward musical gap between William Byrd and Henry Purcell in traditional...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024
Already well represented on disc and regularly reviewed in these pages, Handel’s Nine German Arias need little introduction save for...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024
It was through the agency of one of his patrons in Rome, Cardinal Colonna, that Handel was commissioned to compose...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024
By now, audiences know not to expect anything conventional from Simon-Pierre Bestion, who imposes all kinds of outside influences on...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2024
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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