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...
It’s been quite the year for Ludwig Daser. Long eclipsed by his predecessor and successor as Kapellmeister at the Bavarian...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2023
It’s not just that Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) is so well known for his Messe de minuit or that Ensemble Correspondances...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2023
Paulo Aretino (Paolo Antonio del Bivi; 1508 84) is very definitely on trend for the current Renaissance polyphony scene. A...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2023
The latest Claves release from Joachim Carr is titled ‘Numinosum’, a word drawn from Jungian psychology to describe a sort...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2023
‘Not without effort does one reach the end’, wrote Frescobaldi at the end of his Toccata IX, which is an...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2023
On this revelatory release, Yaara Tal – inspired by Tobias Bleek’s In the Frenzy of the Twenties – 1923: Music...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 11/2023
With the exception of Claudio Arrau, Shura Cherkassky is the only pianist this writer knows of whose recording career spanned...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2023
Alan Hovhaness’s music has been appallingly neglected since his death in the year 2000. In many ways he was ahead...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2023
It may come as a surprise that a composer as experienced as Paul Chihara (b1938) has not written more for...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023
It seems only yesterday that I heard Cordelia Williams at the University of Sheffield in a selection of Vingt Regards,...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay 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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