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...
Once heard, never forgotten, Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble, Garbarek the Blakean serpent weaving among the angels....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2020
It seems extraordinary that this should be Gothic Voices’ first Christmas-themed album; nevertheless, it has been worth the wait to...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2020
A casual listener tuning into a selection of today’s contemporary choral music may easily be led to believe that only...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2020
A tale of two Florentine manuscripts copied by the scribe Fra Antonio Moro leads the intrepid musicologist Laurie Stras to...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2020
If you’ve followed the ‘Evensong Live’ series you’ll know that the ‘live’ bit is more accurate than the ‘Evensong’ bit....
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2020
Julia Wolfe’s music often draws on America’s chequered cultural and social history as subject matter for compositions which – in...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2020
The worst possible preparation for Kullervo is, arguably, Sibelius’s later symphonies and tone poems, all of which Hannu Lintu and...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2020
The shocking pink packaging says it all. If Offenbach had a colour then this might be it. Then there’s the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2020
In 1982 Decca Florilegium issued the first-ever recording of Ockeghem’s entire secular music with the Medieval Ensemble of London (10/82)....
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2020
It takes beats, not bars, to realise that we’re not in Venice anymore with this new recording of Monteverdi’s 1610...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2020
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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