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...
William Lawes’s 10 Royal Consort sets (or suites) were probably composed for the Caroline court during the 1630s. Unswerving royalist...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2015
The performance of the Sonata is on a large scale, with generous, full tone and a vivid, resonant recording. Gabetta...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2015
Audite’s recording is close if not claustrophobic, close enough to differentiate the character of the four Italian instruments as well...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2015
There’s a very particular sound to this recording and it’s one you can trace partially back to Delphian’s 2009 disc...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2015
South-West German Radio’s ‘country’ series continues with a varied selection of late 19th- and 20th-century Italian choral music. Given the...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2015
I suppose there must be choirs of equal merit to King’s College but none has the unassailable advantage of making...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2015
This first recital by a handsome young artist reclaimed from rock‘n’roll by crusading voice teachers will already be a hit...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2015
Now in his mid-thirties, Pavol Breslik has made his name primarily as a Mozart and Donizetti tenor. On this showing...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2015
There is a theory currently doing the rounds that the original 1863 64 version of Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle for...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2015
Bruckner, Poulenc, Villette, Elgar, Perotin, Mendelssohn: none of these composers features on this recording but all are present in the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2015
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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