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 rich celebration of the early Polish Baroque features a brace of Mass settings by Bartłomiej Pe˛kiel and half a...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2013
Contrasto Armonico recorded four volumes of an aborted complete Handel cantata series for Brilliant Classics but here Marco Vitale launches...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2013
Following her fine set of the Brahms symphonies on Naxos with the LPO, Marin Alsop has here moved to Leipzig...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2013
While Bach’s oeuvre boasts only a sprinkling of solo-voice cantatas, they are among the most riveting, largely owing to the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 09/2013
A third volume of secular cantatas finds the Bach Collegium Japan celebrating red-letter days of people who would surely have...
Reviewed by Lindsay-Kemp in issue: 09/2013
Here is a disc whose eclectic references make its classification elusive. Classical, jazz, crossover, rock, big-band, world music? It has...
Reviewed in issue 09/2013
Muso’s five-disc album of performances dating from 1952 to 2010 commemorates 75 years of the Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition in...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2013
La Serenissima can be relied upon to devise clever and coherent concept albums. This one explores Vivaldi’s operas produced during...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2013
Dmitri Kitaenko’s Tchaikovsky symphony cycle continues to provoke decidedly mixed emotions within me. Admiration, certainly, for the expertly honed orchestral...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2013
Karol Szymanowski didn’t like his First Symphony (190607), though as so often with great composers and their fledgling offspring, his...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan 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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