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...
Most of Arianna’s Lament from Monteverdi’s lost opera Arianna (1608) survives in his Sixth Book of Madrigals (1614) as a...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 06/2016
Posthumous prints of music by the recently deceased often consist of offcuts and dredgings-up from the bottom of the drawer,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2016
This is the third period-instrument Elijah (or Elias, as it must be here) on the market. No less than the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2016
A new recording of Machaut’s Mass is always an event, and this one is compelling and provocative in equal measure:...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2016
Tassis Christoyannis and Jeff Cohen’s Benjamin Godard album forms a sequel to their surveys of Félicien David and Edouard Lalo...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2016
Even diligent Italian Baroque specialists won’t know much about Alessandro Della Ciaia (c1605-c1670), an aristocrat in mid-17th-century Siena reputed to...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2016
Frieder Bernius is a Bachian whose work with his choir and period orchestra in Stuttgart has quietly made its mark...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2016
René Jacobs’s rethinking of the spatial relationships between choirs, players and soloists in his recording of the St Matthew Passion...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2016
‘Neglected Works for Piano’ is all that the front of Bengt Forsberg’s new CD reveals. The fact that they’re all...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2016
Few would argue that the international competition circuit has significantly raised the level of piano-playing worldwide. Yet the high stakes...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker 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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