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...
Albion Records has assembled a distinguished line-up for this first of four volumes devoted to Vaughan Williams’s complete published arrangements...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2020
There are many reasons why this new release from the Choir of New College Oxford directed by Robert Quinney will...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2020
This well-constructed programme gets off to a charming start with Rejoice in the Lord alway, in which Purcell acknowledges his...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2020
An Anglo-German partnership is fitting for Handel, and here we have the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin under their English conductor with...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2020
Soon after welcoming the Pentatone release of Bruckner’s E minor Mass conducted by Gijs Leenaars (A/20), here are two more...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2020
Conceived on board the MS Axel Johnson during Britten’s hazardous return voyage from North America to the UK in 1942,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2020
DG’s publicity blurb for this album describes it as ‘both a debut and a proof of musical pedigree’. It’s the...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2020
Most of us seem to have spent much of lockdown earlier this year failing to get anywhere with optimistic to-do...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2020
Khatia Buniatishvili is a pianist of extremes. She has fantastic fingers, a charismatic stage presence, a warm, glowing tone and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2020
L’art du chant appliqué au piano consists of 26 numbers published in four volumes between 1853 and 1863, each containing...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2020
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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