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...
Blossom Street was founded at York University in 2003 before gravitating to London. The ensemble’s second disc for Naxos, a...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: AW2013
The quality of sound in these latest discs in Stone’s Wolf series is wonderfully vivid and full of presence. As...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: AW2013
‘A weary traveller, very much in six-league boots’ was the late Alan Blyth’s less than euphoric verdict on Kurt Moll’s...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2013
The Missa a cappella (2011) is Rautavaara’s most recent choral work of any size yet is built around his Credo...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2013
Palestrina’s 29 settings from the Song of Songs, though published as a collection of motets, are better described as sacred...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW2013
Given the impressive cast involved, this anthology is in a sense self-recommending. Not only does Robert King’s selection include some...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW2013
A minority of Handel recitals crash at the first hurdle, like this collection of so-called ‘Oratorio Arias’. Half of the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2013
The Chinese symphonic tradition dates back only to the late 1920s, while chamber music is an even more recent phenomenon,...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW2013
Bruckner’s monumental third Mass setting, in F minor, is justifiably known as the ‘Great Mass’. With a duration of over...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW2013
Judith Bingham’s isn’t a comfortable sound world. If there is redemptive hope to be found in her choral music, it...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW2013
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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