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...
Last year the premiere recording by Cappella Romana under Alexander Lingas of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week for chorus attracted a...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2016
The exciting partnership between the Sistine Chapel Choir and Deutsche Grammophon continues to deliver atmospheric and thought-provoking performances of Palestrina’s...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 10/2016
‘Spectacle dansé en plein air’ is the genre title given by Grove to this macabre entertainment. In this first, sound-only...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2016
Unlike Palestrina, Lassus didn’t devote an entire publication to the Song of Songs, that book of the Bible whose origins...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2016
Isaac just might be described as the 15th century’s answer to Telemann, his output vast and versatile but uneven. This...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2016
A quick glance down the list of performers tells you all you need to know about Ensemble Marsyas. From leader...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2016
We have no idea who commissioned the Dixit Dominus, where it was first performed or by whom; we only know...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2016
La Nuova Musica, anticipating the 2017 Lenten season, have coupled lamentations by two turn-of-the-century (17th to 18th) French composers –...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 10/2016
For starters, try Est (‘Evening’, tr 27), a setting of a poem about the dying moon, where night has come,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2016
Late Bach always presents fascinating insights into how the composer distils his craft, leaning towards galant sensibilities without compromising his...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2016
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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