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...
When John Steane reviewed Philip Brunelle’s Virgin Classics recording of Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D (1891, rev 1925) in August...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2019
It’s wonderful to hear more music from Francisco de Peñalosa (1470-1528), and particularly pleasing that it comes on this stylish...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2019
The liturgical moment of the Eucharist dominates this new helping of Palestrina (much of it for eight voices): it accounts...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2019
This recital marks the start of a new survey of Liszt’s complete songs from the Weimar-based pianist Daniel Heide. With...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2019
As one of the most important accounts of Josquin’s Masses in recent decades, Peter Phillips’s albums with The Tallis Scholars...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2019
As with September’s Recording of the Month (from the pianist Denis Kozhukhin), Grieg’s Lyric Pieces are once more brought out...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2019
Only months after Nicky Spence’s superb new recording of Janáček’s haunting song-cycle (Hyperion, 8/19), here comes another account of The...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2019
Composer, performer, educator – Alan Charlton (1970-2018) packed a great deal into his all-too brief life, and this release (mostly...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2019
Recorded as long ago as 1996, this reissue makes catalogue sense: a double-up of sacred works by major 19th-century French...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2019
Not all the ‘Great Composers’ are excluded from the annual Husum Festival. But any works by them chosen to be...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas 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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