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...
Felipe de Magelhães was a fellow student at Évora of Duarte Lobo and Manuel Cardoso, whose names are possibly better...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW23
The Belgian composer Joseph Jongen (1873-1953), who lived most of his life in Liège, is primarily known for his large-scale...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW23
In September 2006 pianist and composer Stephen Hough overturned on the motorway at 80mph. He walked away from the accident...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW23
What is this voice? I first received this album on the road, so I put it on before looking at...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW23
It’s more than 10 years since I last encountered this ensemble, performing music by the Lassus pupil Johannes Eccard (9/12);...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW23
I have followed I Fagiolini’s recorded output closely since their release of ‘The Other Vespers’, which Gramophone’s David Vickers described...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW23
Singing Bach’s music, music director Nigel Short explains in his booklet essay, was one of his earliest – and happiest...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW23
From two initial releases on Virgin Classics in the early 1990s, a dozen or so since for Harmonia Mundi and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW23
Jacques Arcadelt’s posthumous fame rests almost entirely on his smash hit ‘Il bianco e dolce cigno’. To mark the 450th...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW23
Any opportunity to hear the glorious Hill, Norman and Beard organ of the Royal Hospital School at Holbrook, Ipswich, should...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW23
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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