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...
Eternal source of light divine was written (but perhaps not performed) for the birthday of Queen Anne in 1713. The...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014
This marks the last issue in the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra’s traversal of the music of Dieterich Buxtehude, a landmark acknowledged...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2014
Buxtehude’s concise cantata-cycle Membra Jesu nostri is an exquisite contemplation of seven different parts of Christ’s crucified body. Daniel Hyde’s...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014
Alastair Miles’s gravely sonorous bass is finely attuned to Brahms’s and Wolf’s vocal swansongs, linked by their themes of human...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2014
I doubt whether anything the year brings for Birtwistle’s 80th birthday is going to dim the lustre of this excellent...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 05/2014
Johann Caspar Kerll studied with Carissimi in Rome and worked his way up through the ranks at the Munich court....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014
Purely on grounds of performance alone, this is one of the finest Mozart Requiems of recent years. John Butt brings...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2014
Music from the Pietà, and less than a quarter of it by Vivaldi? That’s right. Vivaldi is only the most...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2014
Easy to respect but not so easy to hear, the newly formed chamber orchestra Symphonia Momentum shows its commitment to...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2014
The subtitle of this enterprising release by rights should be ‘Virtuoso Wind Double Concertos’, since three of the four works...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2014
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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