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...
Launched by Malcolm Martineau with a splendid percussive vigour, the equestrian night ride of ‘Auf der Brücke’ makes an invigorating...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2017
Listeners to BBC Radio 4 will already be familiar with Carole Boyd (aka Lynda Snell in The Archers) and Zeb...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2017
Verdi’s Requiem launched the LSO’s 2016 17 Barbican season last September in performances that, by all accounts, were high-voltage occasions....
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2017
While not exactly a revelation (given its audible debt to Ensemble Organum), Graindelavoix’s recent recording of Machaut’s Mass was vocally...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2017
There’s a certain overlap between this new Schumann disc from Matthias Goerne and one he recorded in the early 2000s...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2017
Having admired Natalie Dessay in operatic repertoire ranging from Handel to Massenet and Strauss, I’m sorry not to be more...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2017
Scholars used to think that Scarlatti’s St John Passion was a very early work influenced by two similar settings by...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2017
As anniversaries go, 450 isn’t much of a round number, but since it will be another quarter-century until the next...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2017
It is not a new idea to place Monteverdi’s church music from sources later than the famous 1610 collection into...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2017
Folk music collections such as this are not nearly as simple to bring off as they might seem. Percy Grainger’s...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2017
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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