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 first three volumes of Holger Falk’s Eisler series with Steffen Schleiermacher (8/17, 1/18, A/18) ranged from 1929 to 1962,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2020
Giovanni Battista Colonna (1637 95) trained in Rome with Carissimi and Benevoli before returning home to Bologna, eventually becoming the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2020
Founded in 2016 by Neil Ferris and Michael Higgins, the chamber choir Sonoro already have three recordings under their belt,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2020
This collection of funeral music by Bruckner, mostly choral works composed in his twenties, provides a fascinating contrast with the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2020
Inspired by the splendour of the Royal Chapel at Versailles, the Château Spectacles series of concerts and recordings adds the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2020
Over the years Philippe Herreweghe has moved freely between the first and second of Bach’s St John Passion scores, composed...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2020
In the booklet notes accompanying Fazıl Say’s Beethoven sonata cycle, the pianist writes: ‘As I work I make annotations above...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2020
A personal note: I first learnt about the New York-based French pianist Matthieu Cognet through our mutual pianist friend Fanny...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2020
The mesmerising Adagio of the Marcello-Bach Concerto was memorably recorded by Edwin Fischer in 1931. You rarely hear all three...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2020
Daniel Müller-Schott ends this formidable unaccompanied recital with Pablo Casals’s Song of the Birds, played with the intense focus, the...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2020
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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