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...
‘In the Brockes Passion Handel comes nearest to challenging Bach, and retires discomfited’, was Winton Dean’s withering verdict in his...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2019
German ballads, with their supernatural 19th-century narratives and less-than-exalted reputation, might seem to be an odd starting point in the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2019
If one searches for Zimmermannsche Kaffeehaus online, up comes its location in Katharinenstrasse, Leipzig, the map helpfully annotated with the...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2019
There’s more to Liverpool’s musical identity than Lennon and McCartney. A few years ago the RLPO released a series of...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2019
While not an exclusively Russian phenomenon, the choir concerto flourished there during the 18th and early 19th centuries – reaching...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2019
Each new album in this series has brought epiphanies. Juxtapositions of Verdi with Scelsi, Debussy with Aperghis and Barber with...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2019
As the New Union that was America strove to establish itself towards the end of the 1700s, music had a...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2019
This third instalment in Capella de la Torre’s series of the four elements is every bit as fresh and thoughtful...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2019
It’s a lovely concept – an album of the 17th century’s greatest hits, where only the catchiest, most irrepressibly infectious...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2019
From the start of Nuits d’Afrique, the flute weaves its sensuous lines around the soprano voice and echoes of Ravel’s...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2019
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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