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...
King’s College Choir continue releases on their own label with a performance of the ‘traditional’ version of Mozart’s Requiem, as...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2013
This is the final volume in The Sixteen’s survey of Monteverdi’s Selva morale e spirituale (published Venice, 1641). The series...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2013
The disc opens with a morose Advent antiphon simply titled O which, we are told, is derived from the sound...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2013
Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass has had a number of successful recordings, most notably by Rafael Kubelík and Karel An∂erl, both Czechs,...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 07/2013
This is a strangely unbalanced CD, opening with great vitality with the vivid brass of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2013
Three cheers for three more anthems for the Duke of Chandos to complement the three already available from the same...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2013
A notable presence on the UK contemporary music scene for well over a decade, Deirdre Gribbin (Belfast-born and now London-based)...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2013
Charpentier’s histoires sacrées show the strong influence of his probable teacher Carissimi. His first sacred history, Judith, was composed in...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2013
John Nelson describes the St Matthew Passion as ‘the pinnacle of musical civilisation’ in a persuasive documentary which accompanies his...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 07/2013
The final disc in Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach cantata cycle offers the four works for Ascension Day – cantatas...
Reviewed by Lindsay-Kemp in issue: 07/2013
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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