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...
This tremendous, heady disc finds Véronique Gens and Hervé Niquet examining sub-cults of visionaries, saints and mystics in some of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2017
Armide (1686) was the last collaboration between Lully and the librettist Quinault. Considered by contemporaries as the perfect exemplar of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2017
If a disc of sacred Victoriana conjures images of kid gloves and more-tea-vicar, then this is the recording to banish...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2017
I’ve hardly been stinting in my praise of the previous instalments of this series, but this is finer still. The...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2017
The second instalment of Malcolm Martineau’s survey of Fauré’s songs is exceptionally beautiful, both in choice of material and quality...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2017
When so much historically informed Baroque performance necessarily incorporates a hefty proportion of guesswork, the music of violinist-composer Jean-Marie Leclair...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2017
Every now and then a recording’s arrival equates to Christmas coming early, and for me this was one of those....
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2017
A student of, among others, the famous violin pedagogue Zakhar Bron, Vadim Gluzman carries forwards a Russian-Jewish playing tradition that...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2017
There is only one eyewitness report of Monteverdi directing Vespers music after his permanent relocation to Venice: the Dutch tourist...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2017
The prime mover for this delightful collection is Vauxhall – not south of the Thames in London but a 17-mile...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2017
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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