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 was a little guarded perhaps in my reaction to Signum’s release of ‘Winter Journey’ (5/18), and for ‘Swan Song’...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2018
It’s amazing to think that Simon Rattle’s previous recording of Mahler’s late, great symphony of song dates from over two...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2018
Julius Drake’s survey of Liszt’s complete songs reaches its fifth volume with a recital by Allan Clayton, carefully tailored to...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018
The musical importance of Josquin Desprez (c1450/55-1521) cannot be overstated, yet several of his Masses are still not well represented...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2018
Mark Knoop (as soloist in the Choralvorspiele) and soprano Juliet Fraser team up in two recent cycles by Michael Finnissy,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2018
Somewhere in the mists of legend, but not far from the eastern reaches of the Danube, a king enlists a...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2018
Only last January I was heaping praise upon Roderick Williams’s distinguished advocacy of Elgar’s orchestral songs (Chandos, coupled with Andrew...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2018
Robin Ticciati’s beautiful but uneven first disc with Berlin’s Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, pairing Debussy with Fauré, was released in October 2017...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018
Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo was probably composed for Caldara’s native Venice in about 1697 98, perhaps for the Oratorian...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2018
I’ve always been slightly puzzled as to why Simon Rattle (and subsequently Mark Elder) chose to anoint this particular show...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson 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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