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 is a recording which ticks so many worthwhile boxes that it’s difficult to know where to begin. It’s a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2013
Stile Antico’s ‘The Phoenix Rising’ is both a celebration and a cautionary tale. It’s a celebration of the breadth and...
Reviewed in issue 09/2013
The lost city is Jerusalem, and it is the Lamentations of Jeremiah that provides the text of the nine pieces...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2013
The playing of the Berlin Philharmonic on both the 1973 and 1983 sets is as glorious as ever; its virtuosity...
Reviewed in issue 1/1996
No, not Angela Gheorghiu. This is her Romanian compatriot Teodora, who launched her musical career as a flautist, became a...
Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 09/2013
It makes an ideal coupling linking Stanford’s breezy settings of Henry Newbolt in Songs of the Sea and Songs of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 09/2013
Without reading the booklet-notes by composer Maria Schneider and soprano Dawn Upshaw, you know that life beyond tragedy is celebrated...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2013
Specially composed for Mark Padmore and Morgan Szymanski, Alec Roth’s song-cycle My Lute and I harnesses language and music in...
Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 09/2013
Cipriano de Rore is best known today as one of the finest exponents of the madrigal but his sacred output...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2013
This compilation juxtaposes a selection of short choral pieces by two late Romantics, Max Reger and Rudolf Tobias, born in...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2013
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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