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...
Far from the all purpose grandiloquence of the Martinikerk in Groningen – where Masaaki Suzuki recorded his most recent Bach...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2017
Like his traversals of the English and French Suites, Richard Egarr’s Bach Partitas largely convey a rhythmic focus that underlines...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2017
The Polish pianist Rafał Blechacz, particularly lauded for his Chopin interpretations, now turns to Bach, a composer with whom he...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2017
After two albums of penitential motets and two Gramophone Early Music Award nominations, Contrapunctus swap shrouds for swaddling clothes in...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2017
It’s an emotive concept – a queen pregnant with the hope of a nation, only to have it shrink away...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2017
This surprisingly impassioned selection of anonymous motets from a Venetian publication Musica quinque vocum motteta materna lingua vocata (1543) has...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2017
Britain’s tradition of cathedral music-making is one of its greatest cultural legacies. This new recording from Andrew Carwood and St...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2017
Previous releases from the American tenor Nicholas Phan include a couple of Britten discs, both well reviewed in these pages...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2017
The SWR Vocal Ensemble’s series of country-themed discs continues but now without Hänssler Classic; this latest disc is on SWR’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2017
Five hundred years ago Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, changing...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2017
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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