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 musical logic behind this coupling isn’t difficult to fathom. Both Mendelssohn and Bartók composed two violin concertos, one in...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2015
This latest volume in Chandos’s Atterberg survey concentrates, as did Vol 2 (3/14), on a contrasting pair of symphonies. The...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2015
It has traditionally been something of a rarity for The King’s Singers to produce either a single-composer disc or a...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 08/2015
This debut disc from French artistic collective La Tempête and their director Simon-Pierre Bestion is, at first glance, frankly bizarre....
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2015
For the inaugural release on their own label, the University of St Andrews offer a programme of English church music...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 08/2015
Marking the 500th anniversary of the Council of Constance (1414-18), which ended the Papal Schism, this fascinating new programme of...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2015
The Dufay Collective have been around for 25 years, generally focusing on the more folksy aspects of medieval music; William...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2015
As the booklet-notes for this engaging disc point out, opera didn’t really catch on in 17th-century Spain, despite the efforts...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2015
Vocal – particularly choral – music has been a strong and persistent thread through Judith Weir’s output from the start...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2015
In 1816 Goethe received a package from Vienna containing a volume of songs by the young Franz Schubert. The Weimar...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2015
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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