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...
Since Alfred Deller was ‘discovered’ by Michael Tippett in the 1940s, countertenors have tended to get higher and louder. Many...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2020
Whether or not you like the typical American choral sound, there’s no denying that it was made both by and...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2020
‘What did you say?’, the opening phrase of James MacMillan’s Cantos sagrados abruptly demands. But the answer here is in...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2020
The Istanbul-born, Vienna-based tenor Ilker Arcayürek’s Schubert-only debut was well received in these pages, earning an Editor’s Choice (Champs Hill,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2020
I have always been unreasonably fond of Charles Strouse and Stephen Schwartz’s Rags and would have given my right arm...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2020
Hubert Parry thought very highly of his pupil Arthur Somervell (1863-1937), singling out for approval one of his early settings...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2020
Having first made quite an impression back in 2013 with the strikingly original Partita for 8 Voices, followed last year...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2020
Reflecting contemporary iconography, female saints, virgins and martyrs were irresistible subjects for Italian Baroque composers. Alessandro Scarlatti wrote four such...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2020
This triple album comprises two projects recorded 14 years apart. A few relatively better-known arias and cantatas are interspersed among...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2020
Prokofiev’s 72 songs are less well known than other corners of his repertoire, so any chance to increase familiarisation is...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2020
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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