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...
Founded in 2012, the Polish six-voice ensemble proMODERN are a seriously exciting group. There are obvious parallels with James Weeks’s...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2018
Prolonged exequies for Louis XIV culminated at the abbey of Saint-Denis on October 23, 1715, in a funeral service that...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2018
The Gesualdo Six are the latest all-male, one-to-a-part a cappella vocal ensemble to emerge from the English choral scene, and...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2018
The discography of Hieronymus Praetorius (apparently no relation of the more famous and younger Michael) is small but distinguished, The...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2018
As director of Tonus Peregrinus, Antony Pitts’s spiritually imbued sacred settings have evolved hand in hand with his vocal ensemble...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2018
Twenty years ago the Gramophone Recording of the Year was a Hyperion disc by Westminster Cathedral Choir under James O’Donnell....
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2018
‘My sole aim’, Gounod wrote of his Conservatoire days in his Mémoires d’un artiste, ‘was the Grand Prix de Rome,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2018
The two parts of William Finn and James Lapine’s brilliant urban opera Falsettos first came together in 1992 when the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2018
Volume 3 of Malcolm Martineau’s Fauré series closes with a performance by William Dazeley of Mirages, Fauré’s penultimate song-cycle, written...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2018
When Vincenzo Bellini died in 1835 at just 34, Donizetti, four years his junior, was determined to honour his memory....
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2018
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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