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...
Zelenka’s Missa Omnium sanctorum dates from 1741. His last choral work, it was the third in a projected, albeit unfinished...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2019
The link between Striggio’s 40 part motet and Tallis’s Spem in alium had long been known before Davitt Moroney identified...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2019
Like any conscientious artist, Julian Prégardien has taken a highly personal journey into Dichterliebe, and shares it with the listener...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2019
'Short, maliciously sentimental, and written in the folk style’ was Schumann’s apt verdict on the pithy verses of Heine’s Buch...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2019
This album represents a deeply personal project – indeed, it could hardly be any more personal. The second disc features...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2019
'A inimitable composition’, enthused the Earl of Egmont after the 1744 Covent Garden premiere of Joseph. The oratorio’s success, in...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2019
David Lang’s Last Spring is a beautiful, distilled and resonant work after Grieg and is nobly sung by the Bergen-based...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2019
Told in a narrative reversal of King Roger and at considerably greater length than Szymanowski’s opera, Dvořák’s commission for the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2019
If the name Matthew Dubourg (1703-67) rings any bells today it’s probably because there’s a rather good story about the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2019
Ophélie Gaillard and her Pulcinella Orchestra turn to Boccherini for their latest release on Aparté, a finely programmed double album...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2019
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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