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...
According to Delphian’s website, this is the first volume of a projected series of Schubert songs featuring different singers. Ailish...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2015
‘I am not striving to recreate a complete and authentic 17th-century Vespers service…Rather, my primary goal was to create a...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2015
Here is the first of three volumes from Somm which will embrace all 12 sets of Parry’s English Lyrics –...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2015
If Bruno Maderna’s modernist page-turners – works such as Quadrivium, Biogramma and his Piano Concerto – is the Maderna that...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 12/2015
To Haydn’s radiant vision of prelapsarian innocence, Philippe Herreweghe brings his trademark refinement and subtlety, balancing reverence and a sense...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2015
Julia Lezhneva performs nine arias and a Marian hymn all composed during Handel’s extended trip to Italy between late 1706...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2015
From 1585 Giovanni Gabrieli was organist at St Mark’s Basilica and also director of music for the confraternity at the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2015
This is a recording unique unto itself, so comparisons with the dozens of other interpretations of Fauré’s songs already available...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2015
In 1981 Menotti told me that he disapproved of Barber’s transcription of the famous Adagio into a choral piece and...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/2015
In the last few years the Bavarian Radio Choir and its conductor Peter Dijkstra has notched up a selective discography...
Reviewed by David Vickers 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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