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...
Spontaneous scribblings made in the course of Gramophone listening are usually best kept to oneself. Yet, glib as it might...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2016
This Schöne Müllerin brings Stone Records’ excellent series of the Schubert song-cycles to a conclusion in style. Unlike the previous...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2016
Bernardino de Ribera (c1520-?1580) is perhaps best known as the early mentor of Victoria, who he taught during his stint...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2016
Long gone are the days when Rachmaninov’s Vigil was a rarity among Western choirs; it has assumed, rightly, the status...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2016
First impressions are crucial. Opening with one of the most beautiful songs in the Russian repertoire, ‘Sing not to me,...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2016
Lucky Johannes Strobl! Director of music at the drippingly Baroque Abbey Church of Muri in Switzerland, with its two historic...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2016
As with Britten, fresh recordings of Henze inevitably confront those the composer conducted personally, and this alluring and restrained Being...
Reviewed in issue 09/2016
Musical polymath John Frandsen has notched up seven operas and a recent long-form Requiem, ‘an eloquent statement’ for Malcolm Riley...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2016
The seemingly endless flow of Bruckner symphony releases makes it easy to forget that some of the composer’s most inspired...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2016
A welcome addition, this, to the Gerald Barry discography. Bookended by two works setting Beethoven’s letters, the disc also features...
Reviewed in issue 09/2016
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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