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 Lessons for Tenebrae by Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726) are performed less frequently than those by François Couperin and Charpentier....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2015
>It has been fascinating to observe The Brabant Ensemble’s campaign in favour of the many neglected composers of the mid-16th...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2015
Hard on the heels of Robert Spano’s impressively polished Atlanta account of Dona nobis pacem comes this rival – and,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2015
Comparisons may be odious but sometimes they are impossible to avoid. Laurence Cummings made a live recording of Joshua at...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2015
Telemann claimed that while a law student he composed a psalm for St Thomas’s every fortnight. His earliest extant sacred...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2015
Just months after I reviewed Antoni Wit’s marvellous 2012 Naxos recording of Dvořák’s Requiem, along comes another excellent recording. This...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2015
Bob Chilcott’s compact St John Passion follows in outline Bach’s work. It opens powerfully: the chorus proclaim Christ as saviour...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 06/2015
At just over an hour, this excellent performance is some 12 minutes shorter than recent issues under Tennstedt (BBC Legends)...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2015
It takes a brave composer to go up against Bach, and despite the best attempts of Jan-Geert Wolff’s elegant booklet-notes...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2015
The elements constituting an unforgettable Bach Passion journey are always splendidly elusive. Lindsay Kemp wrote that the Academy of Ancient...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood 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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