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 easy cliché of English pastoralism is dissolved into something altogether darker and more dystopian in this disc from Mark...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2013
Almost 30 years after their earlier recording of the work, Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars return to what has...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2013
Almost 30 years after their earlier recording of the work, Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars return to what has...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2013
The proclamation that Cecilia Bartoli ‘continues her Mission to discover the music of Agostino Steffani’ might lead an unsuspecting public...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2013
With this pairing, Christoph Spering continues his exploration of some of the byways of the choral and vocal repertoire. Schumann’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2013
Harry Christophers’s Palestrina series continues with a Mass based on one of his own motets, O magnum mysterium (a text...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2013
‘The Lucerne Festival 2012 has begun with a wonder,’ whispered Die Zeit, as quoted on the packaging for Abbado’s DVD...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2013
It feels like the Seventies again. Hyperion has apparently committed itself to a complete set of Machaut’s music. Not just...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2013
The Nelson Mass is perhaps Haydn’s most popular church work. This is due in large part to the shocked awe...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2013
Born in Birmingham in 1948, the composer and conductor Robert Hanson held directorial posts at both Dartington College of Arts...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2013
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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