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...
My last encounter with Federico Colli was a slightly frustrating one, with his readings of Scarlatti at times seeming overly...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2019
The Arcadia evoked in Handel’s Italian cantatas can be a pretty cruel and cynical place, especially if you’re an amorous...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2018
After a well-received album of Satie for the French composer’s anniversary, Barbara Hannigan and Reinbert de Leeuw (having transitioned from...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2018
In the decade since its foundation, in 2008, the Girls’ Choir of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, have garnered well-deserved plaudits...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2018
This exquisite late Renaissance Portuguese polyphonic repertoire is as richly expressive as it is politically poised. Written under the rule...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2018
A collection of French Baroque music without so much as a fan flutter of courtly secularity or a mouthful of...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2018
In the centenary of the end of the First World War, this recording features a variety of vocal works written...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2018
Marking the centenary of the November 1918 Armistice, these two discs from Signum present two very different interpretations of choral...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2018
After her previous forays into jazz and indie-pop, to say nothing of her recent stint on Broadway as Nettie Fowler...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2018
Some really excellent concert performances in London – both in recital and opera – have whetted the appetite for the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2018
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
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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