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...
Music for the Faust drama? Goethe always proposed Mozart, albeit posthumously, but Schumann – despite nerves about composing music for...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2020
Hands up: how many of us have laughed at Ernest Newman’s quip about Parry ‘sickening for another oratorio’ without ever...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2020
Even in more reflective vein, as with the gently swaying Ave verum corpus completed shortly before his death in 1992,...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2020
Jēkabs Jančevskis (b1992) personifies the next generation of Latvian choral composers after Ēriks Ešenvalds, his teacher. On the evidence of...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2020
The French baritone Marc Mauillon progresses from one musical time warp to another here. He is a distinctive presence in...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2020
The Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds (b1977) is noted for the wide range of his compositions, which span opera (The Immured...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2020
Nicholas Phan recently opened a Philadelphia Chamber Music Society recital with a Nadia Boulanger-authored song I never knew existed, ‘Soir...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2020
The Stabat mater – Mary’s grief upon seeing her son crucified on the Cross – has received more than its...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2020
Stefano Bernardi (c1577-1637) held eminent musical posts in his native Verona but for about a decade he was the first...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2020
With so many detractors, Beethoven Lieder are bound to acquire revisionist defenders, the latest being Matthias Goerne, whose status among...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2020
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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