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...
Giovanni Alberto Ristori (c1692-1753) came to prominence composing operas, such as a setting of Orlando furioso (1713) produced in Venice...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2017
From the choral anthems of the Field of the Cloth of Gold to Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony, the role of music...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2017
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will, of course, forever be best known as the composers of La La Land and in...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2017
Anyone expecting a John Butt Monteverdi Vespers to be in the liturgical reconstruction mould of Andrew Parrott (or indeed Butt’s own...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2017
It’s becoming clear that Ludovic Morlot likes to do things his own way. His recent disc of Ives’s New England...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2017
That Geoffrey Bush (1920‑98) possessed a very real gift for word-setting is evident throughout this most welcome selection of his songs,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2017
French viol consort Sit Fast (named after a piece by Christopher Tye) have shown a liking for cycles in their two recordings...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2017
It’s almost unfathomable that a cello could provoke a scandal, but this appears to have been in the case in the 1730s...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2017
Isabel Leonard and Sharon Isbin illuminate Spanish art songs in orbit around Lorca and Falla by mixing popular favourites and surprising discoveries...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2017
As Pwyll ap Siôn noted in his 80th-birthday feature on the composer (A/15), there is more to Terry Riley than...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2017
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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