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...
Polyphony in the Renaissance was performed in all sorts of ways, from a profusion of voices and instruments to a single lutenist or a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2017
The billing promises much, and the performances certainly deliver. Colleagues in Baroque oratorio and opera for nigh on a decade, Carolyn Sampson...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2017
Vauxhall Gardens was a popular attraction among fashionable society in early Georgian London – but there is seldom precise information about...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2017
An oddly muted, inconsistent release here. Florian Boesch’s German Lieder recordings have been so strong, one is inclined to snap up...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2017
There is bound to be a sense of regret that so musically judicious an account of the first of Rossini’s...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2017
After a hiatus of a couple of years The Sixteen’s Palestrina project resumes, this time featuring music for female saints...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2017
I fear this disc of Mozart’s valedictory masterpiece may fall into the shadow of another (rather different) recording, reviewed above. Such...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2017
>‘Mozart’s Requiem will never be finished’, says French composer Pierre-Henri Dutron in the booklet to his completion of this great...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2017
With the appeal of choral singing in the United Kingdom showing no signs of decline it is, nevertheless, important that the concert...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2017
Some 75 years after his first involvement with church music at the Diocesan College in Rondebosch, South Africa, John Joubert began...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2017
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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