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...
With this instalment of music from the Eton Choirbook, the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral sets out to rival The...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2016
This generously filled disc contains no fewer than eight premiere recordings among its 22 tracks. They reveal that Gabriel Jackson...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2016
Kerll’s Missa pro defunctis (published 1689) was dedicated to Emperor Leopold I, and its preface reveals that the composer wanted...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2016
In recent years it has become commonplace to attribute the 1747 Forqueray Pièces (issued in two versions – one for...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 11/2016
The unusual item here is Saint-Saëns’s Second Piano Trio of 1892, of which the Fidelio Trio give a performance of...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2016
These performances by the Swiss period-instrument ensemble Die Freitagsakademie are so full of character and incident that one can almost...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2016
It’s perhaps rather unorthodox to begin a review by dealing with the accompanying sleeve notes, but still, here I go,...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2016
Recent research shows that, though divorce rates are falling in the UK, there’s an upward trend among the over-50s. The...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2016
Bezuidenhout has recorded Mozart’s complete solo piano music as well as a couple of later concertos, all well receieved in...
Reviewed in issue 11/2016
Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s career has been built on the twin pillars of Italian and Russian repertoire. His very first album paired...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2016
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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