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...
No choir on the planet has as much experience or affinity with Kullervo as the YL Male Voice Choir and...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2017
It’s only a year or so since I welcomed Schütz’s third volume of Symphoniae sacrae from these artists alongside a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2017
One of my musical regrets is that I never heard Fischer-Dieskau live in Winterreise. This DVD, made for German television...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017
Missa Clementina, the first of Scarlatti’s Masses dedicated to Pope Clement XI, was composed in 1705; autograph material in the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2017
When the organist and choirmaster John Scott died in 2015, aged just 59, he left the world of church music...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2017
Any new recording from The Sixteen is going to be well worth hearing. It almost goes without saying that the...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2017
Let us get one thing clear. Despite the odd title there is no whispering on this disc. The booklet promises...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2017
This third and final disc from Les Arts Florissants’ cycle of madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi is, in every way, a...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2017
Anyone following this Mendelssohn series from the LSO and John Eliot Gardiner will find much to enjoy here: in the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2017
The English Catholic liturgy is far less well served by contemporary composers than its Anglican counterpart. Colin Mawby is a...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2017
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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