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...
This programme explores pre-war Ravel, Koechlin and Britten that happens to sit in the sweetest spots of Piau’s comfort zone,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2024
‘Morning Star’ follows where 2019’s ‘Christmas’ (12/19) led – a festive release of a distinctly grown-up sort, this time taking...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2024
Joyce DiDonato’s performance of ‘Schmerzen’ from the Wesendonck Lieder formed part of her ‘Eden’ album (3/22), a mixed programme crossing...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2024
Of the composers who spanned the twilight of the Baroque and the dawn of the Classical period in Central Europe,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2024
These collections were created 60 years apart at opposite ends of Schütz’s long and distinguished career. His youthful first published...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
After the Gramophone Award-winning success of his superb complete Fauré (Aparté, 8/22), my expectations for this recording by Cyrille Dubois...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2024
Harriet Burns and Ian Tindale have emerged as a significant lieder partnership in recent years, though their Schubert album, surprisingly...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2024
Arvo Pärt’s Newman-inspired Littlemore Tractus sets the tone for this disc both musically and thematically. As Kai Kutman’s notes point...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2024
Faultless choral singing in the tiny Ave verum corpus, taken at a flowing (and palpably two-to-the-bar) tempo, augurs well for...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2024
The Crouch End Festival Chorus’s latest release focuses on rarely performed music by Felix Mendelssohn and his older sister, Fanny,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2024
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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