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...
This Italian tenor has chosen a personal selection of sacred songs for his new album, many of which he learnt...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 02/2014
As the Verdi bicentenary celebrations gently subside, this new Erato release offers the listener the best from a pair of...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2014
Wolfgang Holzmair made his Wigmore Hall debut in 1989. He has recently retired from the recital platform, and this disc...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2014
Malcolm Martineau has been a constant in this Signum series of Poulenc songs and in this fourth volume his piano-playing...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2014
Schnittke’s Concerto for Choir was written in 1985, the year Mikhail Gorbachev took office and two new words transferred into...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2014
Rolando Villazón may not be everyone’s idea of a Mozartian stylist. Yet as his survey of this neglected area of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2014
Given the impact of the first complete recording of Gesualdo’s Responsories by the Hilliard Ensemble for ECM over 20 years...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2014
Considering that Duruflé’s choral and organ works span 40 years from the 1920s through to the 1960s, it’s remarkable how...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 02/2014
John Eliot Gardiner’s earlier recording of the Missa solemnis was a landmark event. Reviewing the disc in these columns, John...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2014
The Habsburg Emperor Joseph II died on February 20, 1790. Amusingly but unfairly caricatured by Peter Shaffer in his play...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2014
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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