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...
Decca has the Cistercian monks of Heiligenkreuz and the nuns of Notre-Dame-de-L’Annonciation, ClassicFM has the Ampleforth monks, Deutsche Grammophon the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2017
On the one hand, serious admiration for what Robert Quinney is already doing to this illustrious choir within its own...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2017
‘First Drop’ aims to capture that special alchemy that takes place between ensemble and composer when a new work is...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2017
One of the great things about early music is that there are still discoveries out there to be made. And...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2017
The fact that 19 of the 26 tracks on this release are here made public for the first time will...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2017
This is an unhackneyed programme of songs from a young American soprano, the latest in a series called ‘Première Portraits’....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2017
This is perhaps Nordic Voices’ most satisfying recording to date. Peter Quantrill’s review of their ‘Lamentations’ disc (which also included...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2017
This, first and foremost, is a labour both of love and of scholarship. Miriam Alexandra combines a career as a...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2017
Roger Vignoles starts his characteristically engaging booklet note for this final volume in Hyperion’s Strauss song survey with an explanation...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2017
The sources of Santa Pelagia relate to performances in Modena in 1688 – six years after Stradella was murdered in...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2017
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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