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...
Brahms, like Mozart, seems to have been happier with quintets than with quartets. It’s no surprise that chamber groups want...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2016
During the 18th and 19th centuries, it was common practice to make chamber or solo arrangements of orchestral works to...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2016
This invaluable selection revives three of Moszkowski’s works for violin and piano (the composer was a fine violinist as well...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2016
The spirits of both Mendelssohn and Schumann haunt Edouard Lalo’s three piano trios. In the third of them there is...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2016
This new disc of Renaissance Christmas music from vocal ensemble Stile Antico offers a cleverly balanced selection of festive Lutheran...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2015
The Huelgas Ensemble are no strangers to off-the-wall programmes, and this one is certainly eccentric – on paper, at least....
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2015
The Sistine Chapel Choir celebrate their musical heritage through a selection of Renaissance sacred music recorded inside the Sistine Chapel....
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2015
The myths of Ariadne and Orpheus form the inspiration for Ensemble Stravaganza’s first recording of French Baroque music. The leaders,...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 12/2015
Vivaldi was never the maestro of the Ospedale della Pietà’s coro (about 70 musicians), but at different times he provided...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2015
Recorded live at the Wigmore Hall earlier this year, this disc marks the first collaboration on record between Dorothea Röschmann...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2015
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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