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...
Schütz’s close friend Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630) was Thomaskantor in Leipzig, where the juggling of classroom teaching, musical responsibilities and...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2016
Following their well-received 2013 release, ‘Hymnus’, Die Singphoniker return to Lassus with a new programme. Lassus wrote over 100 Magnificat...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 03/2016
Although public performances of Dvořák’s Stabat mater are still comparatively rare, the discerning record-buyer is now thoroughly spoilt for choice...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2016
In the latest of his programmes for Delphian, Iain Burnside has looked to mid-19th-century Germany for a recital of (mostly)...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2016
Bach’s engagement with music by his Italian contemporaries is clear from his transcriptions of Vivaldi and copies of church music...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2016
There are a plethora of period-instrument recordings of the B minor Mass big and small, from The King’s Consort’s 73...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2016
Hans Abrahamsen and Paul Griffiths’s let me tell you, winner of both a Grawemeyer and an RPS award, is inspired...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 03/2016
Credit to the Albanian tenor Saimir Pirgu for selecting repertoire that fits his voice in this operatic recital. His bright,...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2016
Nobody will contest the premise that the 1960s and ’70s were a very good – golden? well, possibly – period...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2016
‘What, all of it?’ Rossini is said to have asked when told of a revival of Guillaume Tell. Shortening Guillaume...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2016
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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