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...
Two unrecorded offerings by Holst launch what Somm promises will be a three-volume exploration of some lesser-known corners of the...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2021
Recitals focusing on wanderers and wandering are hardly rarities, but British baritone James Newby’s debut album for BIS brings a...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2021
Most composers don’t get round to writing a Requiem until they’ve reached middle age at the very least, so it...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2021
I smell a collector’s item. This cracking recording of Stephen Sondheim’s second Broadway show as composer/lyricist, Anyone Can Whistle –...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2021
It’s quarter of a century since Ian Bostridge burst on to the scene with his first recording of Die schöne...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2021
First performed in 1946, Poulenc’s setting of Jean de Brunhoff’s children’s tale for narrator and piano has come to be...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2021
This is pathbreaking. Certainly Cut Circle are not the first to sing late 15th-century songs without instrumental participation. The Orlando...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2021
The latest album in The Orlando Consort’s Machaut project features works from his ‘Prologue’, a fictional autobiography beginning his complete...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2021
Alexander the Great’s drunken banquet leading to the cruel slaughter of the innocent population of Persepolis is compared in a...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2021
The subtitle of this disc is ‘An Italian travel diary’. In the mid-1660s the young Charpentier spent about three years...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2021
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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