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...
Christoph Prégardien is still one of the finest, most thoughtful Lieder singers active today, and this new recital, presenting nine...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2016
The hero of Dacapo’s fourth recent recording of Nielsen’s ensemble songs isn’t so much the composer himself as DR, the...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2016
It’s been a while since we’ve heard Magdalena Kožená in Baroque repertoire. Her previous recordings of music from the period,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2016
Hugo and Arnold de Lantins are somewhat shadowy figures (possibly brothers, though this is not proven) who rubbed shoulders with...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2016
When I interviewed Edward Gardner in 2014, he expressed regret that he’d not had the opportunity to conduct any Janáček...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2016
It was indeed fateful that Howells should have found himself in Cambridge during the Second World War in order to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2016
Augustus the Strong’s convenient conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1697 enabled the Elector of Saxony to become the King of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2016
‘In this oratorio Handel saved his successors trouble by writing his own additional accompaniments,’ noted Winton Dean in his classic...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2016
This new album from the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir reinforces their position as one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles....
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2016
Walter Braunfels’s career took flight, almost literally, with the composition of his 1920 opera The Birds, based on Aristophanes’s comedy....
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 04/2016
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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