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...
Large-scale choral works by James MacMillan, such as his early Seven Last Words from the Cross or the more recent...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2019
With over 20 CDs of medieval music to their name, the (Italian) group La Reverdie are certainly well placed to...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2019
Commissioned for the 1977 Leith Hill Festival, Howells’s orchestration of the towering Te Deum that he wrote in 1944 for...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2019
This is the third recital devoted to John Beard, the singer for whom Handel wrote almost every significant tenor role...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2019
Renée Fleming’s discography is nothing if not varied, with recent albums encompassing Broadway (12/18) as well a premiere recording of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2018
This concert performance from Versailles’ Opéra Royal last November is a curio – almost perfection sits alongside over-cleanness and lack...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2019
Without minimising either the monumental elements of Beethoven’s long gestated Mass setting or its sheer difficulty, Frieder Bernius coaches from...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2019
Of course transcription involves compromise here and amplification there but the case of Prokofiev’s Visions fugitives in this 1962 arrangement...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2019
In this programme, Albrecht Mayer asks how composers react ‘when faced with the reality of war and a destroyed homeland....
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2019
When, towards the end of the Second World War, the BBC Drama Department asked Vaughan Williams to provide the incidental...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2019
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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