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...
In the rush to grasp the glittering, commercial excesses of Christmas the meditative, preparatory season of Advent is frequently overlooked....
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2018
Released to mark the 25th anniversary of the premiere, this new recording of Hans Zender’s ‘composed interpretation’ of Winterreise marks...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2018
With Arche, Jörg Widmann has (at the age of 45) delivered the kind of history-of-everything evening-length oratorio that, in retrospect,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2018
Many of Purcell’s songs and dance tunes are such ‘standards’ that there really is no need to worry about a...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2018
Another stellar release to mark 100 years since the death of Hubert Parry – and cannily programmed, too, with the...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2018
Like most of his contemporaries, Josquin’s motet production has been overshadowed by his Masses; in fact the last all-motet anthology...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2018
You certainly got your money’s worth, both in quantity and quality, when Handel was around. On St Cecilia’s Day, November...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2018
Poor Christoph Graupner. The general consensus about the composer (a pupil of Kuhnau’s and a contemporary of Telemann and Handel)...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2018
Opera and song are at the heart of Gordon Getty’s work and spring as much from his love for poetry...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2018
Antoine de Févin (c1470-1511/12) is not currently well known, despite his works having travelled widely in his own day and...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2018
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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