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...
Kit Armstrong opens his solo debut for Sony with a nearly-half-hour sequence of Bach chorale preludes. The pianist basically presents...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue:
Michael Finnissy completed The History of Photography in Sound, his thematically interlinked cycle of 11 solo piano pieces, with a...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 01/2014
Sarah Beth Briggs’s Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert recital tells us of a double commitment. First, in depth and consideration she...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2014
Jordi Savall’s explorations of non-Western repertoires continue with this luxuriously presented collaboration between the members of Hespèrion XXI and musicians...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2014
This disc intersperses Renaissance madrigals by Bernardo Pisano and Jacques Arcadelt with the three sections of Roger Marsh’s Il cor...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2014
It’s no coincidence that the same early music groups who specialise in Renaissance polyphony are increasingly making a second study...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2014
This is the seventh volume, no less, of vocal music in Ton Koopman’s Buxtehude complete works cycle, and the fifth...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2014
Monteverdi sung by twins? You could jump to that conclusion hearing this disc of vocal duets by Tenet’s perfectly matched...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2014
Truro Cathedral was consecrated in 1887, and the 125th anniversary celebrations in 2012 included the commissioning of four new compositions...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 01/2014
‘The most wonderful recording session of my life,’ says Bjarte Eike in the booklet to this disc, and indeed the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2014
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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