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...
As Jamie Savan, founder of the Gonzaga Band, points out in his excellent notes, cash‑strapped Italian churches and cathedrals could...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2011
For an aural snapshot of the distinctive Weir style I recommend track 11, a less-than-four-minute setting of a sonnet by...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2011
Schoenberg wasn’t wrong when he said (in 1925) that modern composers could only write introductions, ‘able only to place one...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2011
Risonanze erranti a Massimo Cacciari, premiered in 1986, spins out of the compositional multiverse Luigi Nono created for Prometeo, his...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 12/2011
This is a neatly selected group of pieces. Josquin’s Missa de Beata Virgine was by far his most successful work,...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/2011
As his centenary year draws to a close it is good to be reminded of the strength and quality of...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2011
The omens looked good. An unclichéd selection of arias and duets from Handel’s late oratorios, two fine, distinctive singers well...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2011
Ciconia has done very well in the recording studios and is easily the most-recorded composer active in the years around...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/2011
An enterprising reconstruction of a Bachian musical funeral presents a welcome return for Andrew Parrott and his pioneering Taverner Consort...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2011
A combination of lost works and Bach’s gradual retreat from his breathtakingly prolific cantata production in the very early Leipzig...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2011
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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