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 quiet contemplation of Compline – the final service of the monastic day – provides the framework for this latest...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2014
The musical reputation of Agostino Steffani (1654-1728) is spreading gradually beyond the awareness of a few scholarly cognoscenti but his...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014
For sheer vocal splendour, Jonas Kaufmann is unrivalled in Winterreise since Jon Vickers, whose controversial 1983 recording is revelatory or...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2014
Schubert is once reported to have exclaimed to a friend, ‘Do you know any cheerful music? I don’t.’ His alleged...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2014
Having applied Baroque instruments to 20th-century Latin standards in ‘Los pájaros perdidos’ (Virgin, 5/12), for her latest experiment Christina Pluhar...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2014
The comparative rarity here is the Sept Répons de Ténèbres that Poulenc wrote in 1961 to a commission from Leonard...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2014
While one might legitimately question the need for another anthology of choral music by Arvo Pärt, this recording creates the...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2014
Despite being regarded by some commentators as the work of an ‘odious opportunist’, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana remains one of...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2014
Eleni Karaindrou (b1941) is best known for her cinema scores, especially to Theo Angelopoulos’s films (5/99, 12/04, 6/09). The 17...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2014
Among the generation of French composers who emerged after the dissolution of the avant-garde, Philippe Hersant (b1948) occupies a distinctive...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse 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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