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...
The debut album of Ensemble 1904, founded by the pianist David Jackson to explore the lesser-known 20th-century French and British chamber repertory,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2017
This two-disc set is an anthology of Penderecki’s very substantial output of choral music, in superb performances under the composer’s direction. The first...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2017
The Sixteen’s Polish series continues apace with this fine disc of music by the Italian-trained Marcin Mielczewski. The Italian connection...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2017
Martinů initially described The Epic of Gilgamesh as ‘a kind of profane secular cantata’ but later asserted that it was ‘neither an...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2017
Ludford’s Lady Masses stand apart from his more widely recorded Festal Masses for their alternatim settings and unusual three-part scoring....
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2017
An oratorio by Carl Heinrich Graun on a Christmas subject is preserved in an anonymous manuscript copy in the Library of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2017
Former St Paul’s Cathedral music director John Scott worked at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, until his early death in 2015. While...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2017
Listeners familiar with Ein deutsches Requiem may experience some cognitive dissonance from the outset, hearing the closed English ‘are’ vowel...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2017
Another gift of relatively unfamiliar Bach cantatas from Philippe Herreweghe allows us to drop in on the composer’s second Leipzig...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2017
What do we want from our Handel, and what makes a successful modern-times transcription of a Baroque work? These have...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2017
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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