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...
Leaving other Oxbridge choirs to squabble over Tallis and Byrd, under director Geoffrey Webber the Choir of Gonville & Caius...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2017
Franco Pavan’s recent forays into the exciting world of folk/early music with Laboratorio ’600 are stylish and exciting. His combination...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 09/2016
This is ORA’s third release in less than 18 months – a breathless pace that conductor-founder Suzi Digby plans to...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2017
A collection of settings of Psalm 42 in various translations curated by Catherine Alette Clover, author of New College-themed novel...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2017
Gundula Janowitz officially retired from the stage in 1990 and, according to most accounts, gave occasional recitals until around the...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2017
How do you sing Kurt Weill? There is, I suspect, ultimately no one answer. As Dagmar Pecková points out in...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2017
Vaughan Williams must have been gratified by the positive reaction to his score for Scott of the Antarctic. The film...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 09/2017
This programme presents songs by Szymanowski covering the half-decade between 1900 and 1905. They are youthful works, then, which point...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2017
This recording presents an orchestration of Sviridov’s song-cycle on verses by Yesenin, Russia Cast Adrift (which Hvorostovsky has already recorded...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2017
In a note in the booklet to her debut album, Louise Alder talks about her ‘personal passionate love affair’ with...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2017
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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