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...
Although Christian Thielemann is primarily associated with the Germanic greats, he – like his one-time mentor Herbert von Karajan –...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2019
We should celebrate the fact that within the space of a year London has played host to stagings of not...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2019
By now, one could assemble a pretty little discography of well-known works (from Allegri’s Miserere to Stravinsky’s Mass) presented in...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2019
Adám Fischer’s fascinating (if slightly eccentric) booklet notes speak of the words of Das Lied von der Erde being almost...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2019
Reinbert de Leeuw last recorded Liszt’s pious Via Crucis in 1986 with the Netherlands Chamber Choir (Philips, 5/86), and if...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2019
The Franconian organist Johann Georg Künstel (c1645-1695) worked as a schoolteacher in Ansbach and later became court organist and then...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2019
Founded 10 years ago by the conductor Mathieu Romano, Ensemble Aedes – formerly Ensemble Vocal Aedes – have made distinguished...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019
Given the renown that The Great Service has enjoyed more or less from the off, introductions are superfluous. There’s nothing...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2019
Two previous releases in this occasional Lyon Berlioz cycle – the Symphonie fantastique (10/12) and Harold en Italie (A/14) –...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2019
Hyperion’s series ‘The Westminster Abbey Collection’ continues with another superb disc of music composed between 1906 and 1959 by one...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2019
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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