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...
Recorded between 2010 and 2013, the three discs that comprise this box-set open up for the listener a strange, intricate...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2014
Let’s hope that this debut recording by the prize-winning Hungarian cellist Ditta Rohmann is the first of a two-disc set....
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 05/2014
Mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená believes it is ‘impossible to draw a line between the religious and the personal’. It’s a philosophy...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2014
Twenty years ago, Anonymous 4 had the absurd courage to issue a disc entirely confined to motets in the 13th-century...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 05/2014
Two discs here drawn from the same rich fund of Danish ‘folk-like’ songs for amateur consumption and with some overlap...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2014
Having touched briefly on New World repertoire in their previous release ‘Ay Portugal’ (ABC Classics), Melbourne-based ensemble La Compañia go...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2014
Sounds Baroque follow their debut album (10/11) with another engaging snapshot of the Arcadian Academy’s Sunday afternoon ‘conversations’, magnets for...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2014
It says a lot about Iestyn Davies’s musical instincts that his second Wigmore Hall Live disc is less a solo...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2014
Estonia continues to produce a wealth of composers out of all proportion to its size and population, and Helena Tulve...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2014
Sometime back in the mid-1980s I was sent a review copy of the original LP recording on which all these...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2014
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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