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...
Feliks Nowowiejski was a Polish composer, born in Wartenburg (now Barczewo) in East Prussia in 1877. Having studied composition with...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2018
Sigismund Neukomm (1778-1858) studied for seven years with Haydn in Vienna. From 1809 he was based in Paris, albeit with...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2018
For Claudio Monteverdi 1607 was a devastating year. February saw the premiere of his first opera, Orfeo, and then just...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 09/2018
If Monteverdi was the midwife of the Italian madrigal – ushering it into the new musical world of the Baroque...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2018
Haydn’s vision of a benignly ordered universe is in many ways a no-fail work. This new version, seemingly recorded at...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2018
Even in this golden age of ‘early music’ sopranos, Grace Davidson is outstanding for her seraphic purity and evenness of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2018
An anonymous Passion oratorio based on the Gospel of St John survives in Berlin and its aria texts are by...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2018
Bettina Smith turns to four of Fauré’s song-cycles for the latest instalment of her survey of fin de siècle mélodies...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2018
Genuine charm is a rare quality, though this delightful disc possesses it in spades. It gives us Dvořák’s Moravian Duets...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2018
Some Buxtehude discs give us vocal music, some give us instrumental. This one offers both, a tribute to the Sunday-evening...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2018
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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