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...
Some readers will have more experience of Estonia than I do, but fresh from a first exploration of Tallinn and...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2016
Lassus, Victoria and Schütz composed the only Passion settings before Bach that retain currency. This enterprising release presents two still...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2016
To have Opera Rara record a work dating from 1900 (and to record it in the composer’s revision of 1919)...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2016
Reger’s Op 110 motets belong to a select group of a cappella works (Friede auf Erden, Figure humaine, Jolivet’s Epithalamium...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2016
This is a timely release from ABC Classics. The Australian soprano Nicole Car made her Royal Opera debut last autumn,...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2016
Stefan Herheim’s production of Offenbach’s opéra fantastique raised more than a few eyebrows when it opened in Bregenz last year,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2016
The enthusiasm of Leo X for music was often commented upon by contemporaries. ‘The Pope,’ wrote the Venetian ambassador in...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 06/2016
If the music of Agostino Steffani is no longer a complete unknown (thanks largely to the efforts of Cecilia Bartoli...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2016
This celebratory nod towards the 150th anniversary of Erik Satie’s birth aptly demonstrates something that every Satie aficionado ought to...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2016
Several complete recordings exist of Palestrina’s sacred madrigal cycle on the biblical Song of Songs. For this reason, perhaps, The...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2016
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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