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...
The title of Cappella Nova’s latest recording is neat, but also confusing. ‘Tavener Conducts Tavener’ is not, as glance might...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2016
Genz and Dalberto set out their stall in the opening ‘Gute Nacht’: a brisk, inexorably trudging tempo, sparse staccato textures,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2016
Less well known than his setting of the All-Night Vigil (Vespers), Rachmaninov’s earlier Liturgy of St John Chrysostom – it...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2016
Men – particularly basses and baritones – tend to have a monopoly on Mussorgsky’s songs, so it’s welcome to see...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2016
Well. I’m not sure whether I should be reviewing this unusual DVD for Gramophone or for Horse & Hound. In...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2016
Machaut’s dual status as poet and composer seems ideally suited to launch a work in which the relation of text...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2016
Those who find Korngold’s music difficult to take may blench at the thought of a two-disc collection of his complete...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2016
Cantica Symphonia are a mixed vocal and instrumental ensemble long associated with the works of Guillaume Dufay, to whom they...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2016
This is the first of two recordings in this issue in which a living composer dialogues with Machaut, the first...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2016
In all my years of reviewing Feldman performances, I’ve never heard one so catastrophically misconceived as Robert Simpson’s jazz-hands misreading...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 01/2016
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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