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...
This disc celebrates and contextualises the music of Hermann Matthias Werrecore (c1500-c1574), maestro di cappella of Milan Cathedral for nearly...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2020
Elsa Dreisig’s striking debut album presented images of operatic characters (‘Miroir(s)’, 12/18). The French-Danish soprano, pianist Jonathan Ware and the...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2020
‘An interior musical vibration invoking roots, emotions, passion, poetry and play, challenging the imprint of time, without denying its existence’,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2020
This is a highly attractive and innovative programme of a cappella choral music which also makes use of solo instruments....
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2020
The ostentatious musical charms and theatricality of Juditha triumphans devicta Holofernes barbarie (1716) are served vividly in this live concert...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2020
It’s been 25 years since Christoph Prégardien and Andreas Staier presented Dichterliebe as part of an album dedicated to Heine...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2020
Rore’s Missa Praeter rerum seriem, which conceals a hidden tribute to his patron, Ercole II d’Este, has been recorded several...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2020
Allan Pettersson’s cantata Vox humana (1974) was composed in close proximity to his choral Twelfth Symphony, De döda på torget....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020
A treasure, to be sure. Four years before Bruno Walter’s celebrated, indeed classic Vienna recording (1952) with Kathleen Ferrier, the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2020
The German soprano Julia Kleiter joins Julius Drake for the sixth volume of Hyperion’s Liszt survey, which covers the years...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2020
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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