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...
To build a programme of 17th-century music for tenor and ensemble around the myth of Orpheus and not include ‘Possente...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2018
This juxtaposition of Handel and Rameau is an interesting proposition because the soloist is the boy treble Askel Rykkvin (whose...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2018
The opening chords of Gabriel Jackson’s Stabat mater, their dissonant points hammered like nails into the ear, make for an...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2018
‘That bloody Gluepot’ was how an infuriated Sir Henry Wood described The George, a bustling public house just round the...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2018
As this collection and its accompanying notes remind us, the music came first and the poetry followed for Emily Dickinson....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2018
Sebastián Vivanco (d1622) was a slightly younger contemporary of Victoria and one of the last exponents of Spain’s Golden Age....
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2018
The Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble presents the St Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastiani (1622 83), who was Kantor...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2018
Schumann lightly reorchestrated one of Bach’s most affective cantatas in 1849 for a Dresden choral society of his own foundation....
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2018
Every new repertoire frontier in Carolyn Sampson’s growing body of solo recordings – that so regularly turn up in the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2018
Completed in 1911, Évocations was the work that put Albert Roussel on the musical map at its premiere a year...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2018
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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