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...
This is a beautiful selection of Sviridov’s choral music. There is a subtlety to phrasing of the Latvian Radio Choir’s...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2018
Maria Bengtsson is an experienced soprano with many major Strauss roles on her CV, and here she brings plenty of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2018
Six months after I reviewed the third volume of Ian Bostridge’s live Schubert series from the Wigmore Hall (12/17), here’s...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2018
It is not certain that all the music on this disc is by Scarlatti; the manuscript that contains the nine...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2018
The Rachmaninov Vigil has become one of those works, rather like Mozart’s Requiem, of which one can never have too...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2018
The Sixteen cleverly mix up secular, political and sacred pieces revolving around flattering court odes that welcomed the king and...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2018
Recordings entirely devoted to William Mundy don’t abound; the most recent seems to be The Sixteen’s almost 20 years ago...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2018
Monteverdi’s Venetian church music – whether written for St Mark’s or elsewhere in the city – is preserved selectively in...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2018
Roman Maciejewski (1910 98) wrote his Requiem over a period of 15 years, between 1945 and 1959, during which time...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2018
Although Michel-Richard de Lalande is not the most frequently recorded of French Baroque composers, he was certainly one of the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2018
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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