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 disc signifies a dual artistic emergence. As a composer of mélodies, Saint-Saëns comes out from behind the shadow of...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2017
Martin Peerson’s ‘Mottects or Grave Chamber Musique’ (1630) contains five-part songs on poems from Caecilia by Sir Fulke Greville (the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2017
Just two months after the appearance of Masaaki Suzuki’s C minor Mass, here is another that takes an interesting editorial...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2017
Of Mendelssohn’s works only the Scottish and Italian symphonies had a longer, more fraught gestation than Elijah. The composer wanted...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2017
It’s difficult to escape the air of academicism surrounding this disc, which was programmed by the musicologist-conductor Michael Vitalino while...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2017
Here’s another welcome helping of choral Elgar courtesy of Mark Elder and his Hallé forces, this time in the context...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017
According to the 17th-century intellectual Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni, the composer Carlo Francesco Cesarini was the equal of Stradella, Bononcini and...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2017
Though recorded periodically and treated as a cultural touchstone in German-speaking countries, Brahms’s Die schöne Magelone still leaves seasoned English-speaking...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2017
Enormously popular in the first half of the 20th century and largely forgotten and generally reviled during the second half,...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 03/2017
Die Wahlverwandt-schaften is claimed by the booklet writer to be ‘possibly the best novel’ by Goethe. ‘It refers to the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2017
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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