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...
Václav Luks’s reconstruction of Zelenka’s Missa Divi Xaverii, edited painstakingly from the damaged autograph manuscript, has just been published by...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2016
Right from the start, this Schwanengesang has two major virtues that should come as no surprise to anyone aware of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2016
Is this set for lovers of Purcell or Britten? Or perhaps both? Now that we have ample opportunity to hear...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 06/2016
Henri Du Mont was a key figure at the court of Louis XIV. Born in Flanders in 1610, he moved...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2016
Few organists specialising in the great oeuvres of 17th- and 18th-century North Europe find such satisfying complicity between the instrument,...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2016
Last October it was announced that a copy of Telemann’s 12 fantasias for solo viola da gamba, known to have...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2016
With few exceptions, Poulenc’s piano music is so seldom programmed that hearing a representative selection almost seems a discovery. The...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2016
Less may be more but more is even better – or so Benjamin Beilman seems to think. This 26-year-old American...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 06/2016
When the seasoned artistry of the Takács Quartet blends with the thoughtful brilliance of Marc-André Hamelin, a rare alchemy occurs....
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2016
This pairing of the C minor Quartet and Piano Quintet comes a couple of years after the Brodsky’s first disc...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2016
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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