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...
Reger wrote some 300 songs during the course of his career, very few of which form part of the regular...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2016
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, a violinist and composer prominent in Parisian musical life in the mid-18th century, was among the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2016
Born in Amiens and named after his town’s patron saint, Firminus Caron (c1440-after 1480) was a contemporary of Johannes Tinctoris...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 07/2016
Paul Hillier and his Theatre of Voices explore the circle of church organists and composers in northern Germany and the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2016
Each generation produces at least one organist who sets out to make the instrument acceptable to a new audience through...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2016
Vadym Kholodenko begins this decidedly unhackneyed programme with what may be the finest recording of Balakirev’s Sonata No 2 since...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2016
Coming soon after Freddy Kempf’s identical coupling, Jonas Vitaud’s recording is altogether less diffident. He speaks of the Grande Sonate...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2016
Few pieces conjure up more immediately and vividly the comfortable middle-class world of the 1840s than Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2016
The CD of Kenneth Hesketh’s instrumental compositions released three years ago (NMC, 7/13) offered a well-balanced sequence of colourful musical...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2016
Granados’s Goyescas is more than a suite of piano pieces: it’s a road trip where one encounters a diverse succession...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2016
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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