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...
The pleasures here are not concerned with the pictures and sculpture of the present-day museum but with musical activity in...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2020
San Giovanni Battista was composed in 1675 for performance in the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini in Rome. Although...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2020
While recently hearing Matthias Goerne’s deadly serious Beethoven Lieder disc (DG, 4/20), I kept thinking that what this music really...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2020
Think Rachmaninov romances and one thinks of sighing poets, unrequited love and plenty of Russian doom and gloom, usually sung...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2020
This is a focused and absorbing programme, splicing choral works by Pärt with Vasks’s Plainscapes and MacMillan’s Magnificat. It finds...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2020
As a former Swingle Singer and currently artistic director and principal conductor of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2020
Unfamiliar as I was with the music of Louis Lewandowski (1821 94), the first name that came to mind on...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2020
‘Its proportions are modest in comparison with the Mass in B minor or the Missa solemnis’, wrote The Musical Times...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2020
This really does look like two recordings on one disc. The works it presents are so radically different in style,...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2020
The title for this album might suggest a mixed recital, picking and choosing songs along the theme from across Brahms’s...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2020
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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