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...
Gaechinger Cantorey and Hans-Christoph Rademann endeavour to present the version of Messiah that Handel directed at its premiere in Dublin...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2020
Ergodos has in recent years become an essential platform for new music. An independent label founded by the Irish composers...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 09/2020
Caught at the junction of folk-earthiness and blue remembered sentiment, Ivor Gurney’s music has dated more markedly than that of...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2020
This project originates in a residency of several years the composer undertook at St John’s College, Cambridge. At its heart...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2020
Ivor Bolton’s survey of unfamiliar and familiar Fauré examines his sacred music for its third instalment, placing the Requiem and...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2020
A cappella quartets and quintets generally belong to the world of Byrd and the barbershop. Mozart’s vocal canons are like...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2020
What an interesting and original idea for Vasco Dantas to juxtapose Schumann’s Kinderszenen, Carl Reinecke’s virtually unknown Schumann song transcriptions...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2020
Doth Mahan Esfahani protest too much? Here we have a cohesive, effective, taut programme of 20th-century harpsichord works that builds...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020
On paper, the 2019 GFA Competition winner Johan Smith’s recital programme looks unremarkable: a classic mix of old and new,...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2020
The Armenian artist Sergei Babayan is perhaps best known as Daniil Trifonov’s sometime teacher and mentor. It is presumably thanks...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2020
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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