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...
A couple of years ago Stephan Genz and Michel Dalberto released a Winterreise that was welcomed in these pages by...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2017
Handicapped by stilted, slow-moving librettos, Schubert’s stage works, like Haydn’s, seem forever destined to languish on the margins of the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2017
This recording joins what is now a very crowded market indeed, so much has Rachmaninov’s masterpiece become part of the...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2017
In his lifetime Haydn was frequently taken to task for the worldliness of his Masses – too much of the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2017
Equally known as a composer of film scores (notably that for Sergey Parajanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates) as for the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2017
As austerely beautiful as the cathedrals that it filled, the music of the Spanish Renaissance stands apart from its Italian...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2017
Handel’s first oratorio (Rome, 1707) is a moral dispute over the eternal happiness of the naive Beauty (Bellezza), who struggles...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2017
Hot on the heels of uneven accounts of Handel’s so-called German Arias by Ina Siedlaczek (Audite) and Gillian Keith (Channel...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2017
The venue is the Berlin Philharmonie, the engineering teams of Pentatone and German radio familiar from many excellent recordings, but...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2017
‘Lux’ – the opening word of the opening track on ‘Sudden Light’, Lux orta est iusto – bursts into the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan 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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