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...
If the name Penelope Thwaites is familiar it’s probably as a pianist. Australian-born, London-based Thwaites has recorded extensively and is...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2020
Tchaikovsky’s settings for the Orthodox Vigil service (which comprises Vespers followed by Matins and the First Hour in the Byzantine...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2020
Here from Avie comes another Lieder disc, following up on Kyle Stegall and Eric Zivian’s Schumann recital (10/19), where the...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2020
The four composers were all born within the two decades from 1848 and, to varying degrees, had an eye and...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2020
Walton’s association with the Sitwells, who took the young composer under their familial wings in the 1920s after he left...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 07/2020
Whenever I have heard Vox Clamantis in concert it has been an amazing experience. Their clarity, their precision, their sheer...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2020
The Requiem in E flat by Niccolò Jommelli (1714-74) became to the late 18th century what Mozart’s was to the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2020
Why, if you’re not the composer, would you arrange a large-scale score for much smaller forces? If it’s a question...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2020
The title ‘Messiah … Refreshed!’ is hype – this purposefully old-fashioned large-scale performance presents the version for modern symphony orchestra...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2020
I was much taken with Kathryn Rudge’s contribution to Barry Wordsworth’s BBC CO anthology of orchestral songs by Elgar (Somm,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2020
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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