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...
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Queen of Hearts
The Gesualdo Six, an ensemble of male voices, was formed in Cambridge in 2014 to perform Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsories of...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 09/2024
The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy
Though Thomas Hardy is best known as the author of well-known (and for the most part) fatalist novels, he aspired...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 09/2024
Magnificat 4
This final album of Andrew Nethsingha’s acclaimed ‘Magnificat’ series features recordings made during 2022. It also marks the close of...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2024
Im wachen Traume
At the risk of sounding like a damaged sound file (as opposed to a broken record): did anybody listen to...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2024
Hymns from Merton
As fewer young people are exposed to the treasures of Anglican hymnody and a number of misguided senior clergy seem...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2024
Harmonies of Devotion
This Venetian Baroque programme is a departure for Contrapunctus – discographically at least. It views the Italian Baroque through the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2024
The Leuven Chansonnier Vol.3 & 4: Le Cueur vous demeure
It is common knowledge that the Sollazzo Ensemble that was awarded the contract for recording the entire Leuven Chansonnier on...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 09/2024
Au douz tens nouvel: Chansons de trouveres
The start of this recital promises something bracingly ahistorical: the aeolian wind and unpitched instrumental sounds might have come straight...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2024
VIADANA Sacri concentus
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana’s groundbreaking Cento Concerti ecclesiastici (Venice, 1602) was the first publication of sacred music to include mandatory...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2024
CORIGLIANO; HO Chamber Works
Imagine setting the words to Paul McCartney’s ‘Yesterday’ while ignoring the song’s well-known flowing melody, plangent harmonies and nostalgic expression....
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2024
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Tchaikovsky’s Empire: A New Life of Russia’s Greatest Composer (by Simon Morrison)
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
Review - Berl Senofsky: American Virtuoso
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Review - Max Rostal: Concert Tours 1956-1965
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Review - The Complete Symphonic, Concertante & Sacred Music Recordings (Orch dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Antonio Pappano)
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
Review - recent Mengelberg releases from the archives
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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