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...
Rautavaara wrote the Credo for his Missa a cappella in 1972, adding the five movements to make a full Ordinary...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2019
This attractive disc finds Sandrine Piau and Le Concert de la Loge, with their conductor Julien Chauvin, exploring French orchestral...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2019
Joël Suhubiette’s name was previously familiar to me as the director of Ensemble Jaques Moderne, and his career as singer...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2019
Melody Moore’s ‘An American Song Album’ feels personal and custom-made for her ample lirico spinto instrument. And that’s always a...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2019
Set down hard on the heels of an acclaimed concert performance in Glasgow during May 2018, Thomas Dausgaard’s new recording...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2019
Schütz’s Cantiones sacrae (1625) is not the easiest collection to situate within his output. The combination of Latin texts, consistently...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2019
After giving us Winter Journey last year (Signum, 5/18), Roderick Williams now turns to Schubert’s great song-cycles in their original...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2019
Alessandro Scarlatti’s immense output includes a staggering number of chamber cantatas, nearly 800 in all, most of them for solo...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2019
The music of Hieronymus Praetorius (1560-1629) is clearly influenced by Giovanni Gabrielli and the Venetian polychoral style which flourished at...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2019
Respect for Leopold Mozart seems often to be given grudgingly. His achievements include a major treatise on violin-playing and the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2019
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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