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...
This selection of about a third of Sibelius’s solo songs with piano confirms again the composer’s imaginatively wide selection of...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2016
These two ensembles are (along with Cantus Cölln) among the finest and most prolific exponents of Schütz on CD. With...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2016
Jon Vickers’s 1983 Winterreise is simply hors concours. As with everything he sang, the Canadian tenor’s sincerity and depth of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2016
Composer Alec Roth may be UK-based and of Irish/German descent, but it’s America that provides the musical heritage for his...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2016
In the early 1650s Johann Rosenmüller was promised that he would become the next Thomaskantor, but this plan was scuppered...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2016
This highly impressive disc features a selection of Pärt’s choral music and his complete output for organ, somewhat oddly programmed...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2016
There is a celebratory atmosphere to this Vespers, recorded at a concert in the Royal Chapel at Versailles. And why...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2016
There is a celebratory atmosphere to this Vespers, recorded at a concert in the Royal Chapel at Versailles. And why...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2016
German-born but Italian trained, Simon Mayr was in his early fifties when he turned in earnest to the composition of...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2016
Released to mark the 10th anniversary of the Frauenkirche’s reconsecration, this album effectively functions as a showcase for the talents...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2016
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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