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...
Taking inspiration from the seasons of the Anglican year – Advent, Passiontide, Pentecost, Easter – Graham Ross and the mixed-voice...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2016
With this new disc, Jonas Kaufmann offers something like a transalpine equivalent to his disc of the German repertoire popularised...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2016
Schoenberg’s 1938 setting of the Jewish prayer of atonement certainly succeeds in its aim to ‘vitriolise out the cello sentimentality...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2016
The title for this disc is something of a misnomer, since none of Reger’s original works for voice and orchestra...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2016
A song describing a cat stuck up a tree, another about the smell of a printer, and (even more bizarrely)...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 12/2016
Paul Juon (1872-1940) was born in Russia into a German-Swiss expat family and studied at the Moscow Conservatory, though from...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2016
Completed in 1904, when Jan van Gilse was only 23, Eine Lebensmesse was the work that put him on the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2016
Ten years ago, when I reviewed the first three books of Gesualdo’s madrigals in the recording from the Gesualdo Consort,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2016
Whether through pragmatism, perfectionism or a combination of both, Maurice Duruflé produced three different versions of his Requiem. The 1947...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2016
The second instalment of Hansjörg Albrecht’s Braunfels survey improves markedly on its predecessor (8/16). First, it consists entirely of original...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2016
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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