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...
During the past 17 years Stephen Layton has nurtured the chapel choir of Trinity College Cambridge into arguably the pre-eminent...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2023
In 2000 Tan Dun was one of four composers commissioned by Helmuth Rilling to write new Passion settings. His Water...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2023
That Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars have – after 50 years of concerts – never before recorded Sheppard’s Cantate...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2023
Recordings of Schubert’s sacred music don’t exactly grow on trees, and even though his final Mass is perhaps the best-known...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2023
The 70-odd singers of the MDR Leipzig Radio Choir and the city’s Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche provide an authoritative ‘home’ response to a...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2023
Sarah Connolly caresses the opening phrase of Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with a welcome dignity, and her voice retains its warmth and...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2023
In the penultimate instalment of their Machaut series, The Orlando Consort tackle a pinnacle of the composer’s output, the Lay...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2023
Although Carl Loewe’s reputation today lies within his prodigious output of songs and ballads, his long career as a church...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2023
Glenn Gould might have argued passionately in favour of the original 1923 version of Hindemith’s Marienleben but it’s the heavily...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2023
Milton’s companion poems expositing Mirth and Melancholy were adapted by James Harris and Charles Jennens into a libretto that presents...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2023
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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