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...
The Manuscript XIV 726 of the Minorite Monastery in Vienna is one of the most important sources of Austrian Baroque...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2016
Back in 2011, four years after Reinhard Goebel’s Musica Antiqua Köln had disbanded, they issued a surprise new premiere recording...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2016
Paul Juon (1872-1940)enjoyed a brief vogue in Gramophone during the 1930s thanks to a set of the Chamber Symphony (1907)...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2016
Time was that Ravel’s String Quartet went with Debussy’s on disc the way Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto went with Bruch’s. The...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2016
Fans of Youri Egorov will be delighted with these two previously unreleased programmes. The first is an April 1980 recital...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2016
The ‘French’ seem to be the least favoured on record among Bach’s keyboard suites, yet also perhaps the ones most...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2016
The sacred and the worldly rub shoulders in Nicky Spence and Malcolm Martineau’s ‘Paradis sur terre’, which opens with war-wounded...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2016
Hot on the heels of Andrew Parrott’s fine account of Taverner’s Western Wynde Mass (Avie, 5/16) comes this double-bill from...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2016
Carlo Gesualdo might get all the attention when it comes to colourful composer biographies but Alessandro Stradella (1639 82) gives...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2016
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral have a long and illustrious association with late-Renaissance Iberian polyphony. This new disc of works...
Reviewed by Edward Breen 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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