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...
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GUBAIDULINA Sonnengesang
Gubaidulina’s substantial Sonnengesang (‘The Canticle of the Sun’) was written for Mstislav Rostropovich on his 70th birthday, and the dedicatee...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2017
GOMBERT Motets II
This double album of motets by Nicolas Gombert (c1495-1560) from the vocal ensemble Beauty Farm is their second release, offering...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2017
DURANTE Requiem
Francesco Durante (1684-1755) made a profound mark on musical culture in early-18th-century Naples. His pupils at the city’s prestigious conservatories...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2017
DANIELPOUR Songs of Solitude. War Songs
Richard Danielpour composed Songs of Solitude (2002), on poems by Yeats, in the weeks following the September 11 attacks; War...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2017
CALDARA Salve Regina
Antonio Caldara is best remembered today as a composer of opera. It’s a genre absent from this new collection of...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2017
Sleepers Awake!
The latest disc from The Bach Players, based as usual on one of their London concert programmes, brings together three...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2017
ARNALDS Island Songs
Island Songs follows on from a number of projects by Ólafur Arnalds, such as Found Songs and Living Room Songs...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2017
Venezia 1700
Les Accents, founded in 2014, is an ensemble devoted to vocal and instrumental music of the 17th and 18th centuries....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2017
The Cellist of Sarajevo
David Wilde’s list of achievements as a solo pianist spanning 50 years – from being the winner of several major...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2017
SCHULHOFF Chamber Music
Naxos provides a quality sampling from the creative prime of an extraordinarily gifted 20th-century Czech composer-pianist who died of tuberculosis...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2017
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Tchaikovsky’s Empire: A New Life of Russia’s Greatest Composer (by Simon Morrison)
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
Review - Berl Senofsky: American Virtuoso
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Review - Max Rostal: Concert Tours 1956-1965
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Review - The Complete Symphonic, Concertante & Sacred Music Recordings (Orch dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Antonio Pappano)
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
Review - recent Mengelberg releases from the archives
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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