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...
When you think of Roman polyphony you think of balance, order, elegance. Not for Rome’s composers the rougher textures and...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2020
The Passion settings of Schütz, from around 1666, still follow the example of Victoria and the polyphonists in setting the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2020
Anyone who’s heard Gerhard Siegel live will know that he’s a formidable performer, and in Wagner’s Ring a Mime who...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2020
I’m never quite sure who buys classical concert DVDs; one viewing is usually enough, I would have thought, especially if...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2020
These are the very first recordings on CD of two cantatas by Moniuszko on themes taken from part of the...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2020
A final example of Bach’s insatiable appetite for critiquing fresh musical worlds occurred when the composer arranged Pergolesi’s Stabat mater...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2020
It’s been a good year for Janáček’s The Diary of One who Disappeared. First came Nicky Spence’s superb new account...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2020
Juan Esquivel (c1560 before 1630) is another Spanish 16th-century polyphonist thus far denied the attention he deserves on record. First...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2020
For those seeking comfort and an escape from the manifold stresses and uncertainties currently facing mankind, there will be much...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2020
Byrd’s Four-Voice Mass is coupled with the Propers for All Saints in this well-conceived programme, which imagines one of those...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2020
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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