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...
For their second album, La Quintina premiere an unknown Mass by English Renaissance composer Nicholas Ludford (c1490-1557), performed by three...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2024
Songs comprise a substantial part of Rued Langgaard’s earlier output, affording an overview of how his music evolved during his...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2024
Emily Howard’s choral work The Anvil was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and the Manchester International Festival in 2019 to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 02/2024
Joël-Marie Fauquet’s booklet note for this recording of Les Béatitudes (1879) is a model of its kind, as it does...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2024
The most lavish of Charpentier’s four extant Te Deum settings was for an unknown occasion in 1692; there is an...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
Caldara’s Gloria in C for eight-part choir, soloists and orchestra (composed September 1707) might have formed part of a Mass...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
This is a scintillating collection. Les noces may be a work audiences either love or hate (is it a concert...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2024
Two favourite Bach cantatas for bass voice sung by Christoph Prégardien, one of the most respected lyric tenors of his...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2024
Stuttgart’s distinguished Bach credentials in the post war years were largely built on the twin pillars of Karl Münchinger and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2024
‘Far more than a mere bridge between the two artistic peaks of the 18th century’ is how I recently described...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2024
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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