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...
Schumann’s sacred music remains the least-explored facet of his output – less appreciated even than his forays into opera and...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2023
In a class by itself? That well-worn cliché kept surfacing during multiple listenings to this new recording, which promises to...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2023
Oratorios are often on biblical or spiritual subjects, but Philip Sawyers’s Mayflower on the Sea of Time (2017 18) was...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023
A musical commentary on desire? How can that work? The most famous piece in that territory – Tristan und Isolde...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2023
Luzzaschi’s Madrigali, printed in 1601, supposedly contains the music that the ‘three ladies’ of Ferrara sang privately for Duke Alfonso...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2023
Thomas Larcher’s The Living Mountain is a realist, handheld-camera response to the Hollywood glitz of Strauss’s Alpine Symphony. The soprano...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2023
It is now 33 years since Arwel Hughes’s oratorio Dewi Sant (‘Saint David’) was issued on Chandos, with the BBC...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2023
‘The form is strong. The imagery is eloquent. This is a lyrical, impassioned, masterly and very powerful composition: a humanist...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2023
Handel’s Israel in Egypt is presented here in an excellent performance, from a concert at Shaker Heights, a suburb of...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2023
Those who enjoy exploring the uncharted byways of choral music will definitely relish this new disc of a cappella works...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2023
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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