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...
Only a few months after Florian Boesch’s second recording of Schubert’s great wintry song-cycle (Hyperion, A/17), here’s a second bite...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2018
Schnittke’s Psalms of Repentance constitute one of the most technically challenging works in the entire choral literature (having conducted them...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2018
This is really two quite separate discs. One has the 28 voices of the Yale Schola Cantorum, performing unaccompanied in...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 03/2018
Step into the Danieli Palace hotel in Venice and, with a bit of creative imagination, it is possible to commune...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 03/2018
The resurgence of interest in the music of Nikolay Medtner has tended to focus, understandably enough, on his piano works,...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2018
The catalogue already has a couple of recordings of Mahler’s devastating song-cycle from that most devastating of singers, Brigitte Fassbaender....
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2018
In his informative and substantial essay (unusually placed after the libretto in the booklet), Paul Conway describes Maconchy’s ‘dramatic cantata’...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2018
The modern reputation of Nicholas Ludford (c1490-1557) was really sealed by the first recordings of The Cardinall’s Musick in the...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 03/2018
Hyperion’s excellent Debussy song series has evolved over the years from what was originally a stand-alone recital by Christopher Maltman...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2018
If you’re unsure whether to listen to a whole French Baroque opera, try the cantata repertoire first. Considered the finest...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 03/2018
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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