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...
In recent years Gil Shaham has taken up the cudgels for the music of a decade which, he would argue,...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2016
This new disc of Bach concertos has attributes we have come to expect from the Dunedin Consort and Linn, namely...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2016
Atterberg’s Third Symphony was assembled in stages between 1914 and 1916 from ideas for three seascapes/tone-poems that – after the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2016
This is the fourth disc to be devoted exclusively to the music of Julian Anderson and the second such venture...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2016
Back in the May 2005 issue of Gramophone, Bryce Morrison extolled the virtues of a Scarlatti disc by a young...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2016
Aficionados of French (or France-based) opera will warm to ‘Paris, mon amour’ by the Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva. Schooled in...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/15
In their search for the vocal stars of the future, Rosenblatt Recitals have enjoyed an impressive hit-rate. Now that the...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2016
This is a curious project. Suzi Digby and her new professional choir ORA champion today’s British choral composers as the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2016
This collection revolves around a range of seldom-performed songs by Charpentier. The title alludes to three stanzas on texts taken...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2016
To celebrate their 25th anniversary, vocal ensemble Magnificat directed by Philip Cave have created a programme of Renaissance polyphonic works...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 03/2016
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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