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 new anthology from that ever-improving and most elegant of mixed Oxbridge choirs, the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, treads...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 10/2015
A successor to the two ensembles’ previous joint venture devoted to the Dow partbooks, this album presents a selection from...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2015
An international Sophie, Gretel, Pamina and much else, Camilla Tilling shows herself at home here in Scandinavian songs with a...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2015
CDs of 15th-century motets are thin on the ground, the tendency being to programme sacred music of this period around...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2015
Natalie Dessay and Philippe Cassard’s ‘Fiançailles pour rire’ ostensibly forms a sequel to their 2011 Debussy disc ‘Clair de lune’,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2015
Anybody with deep affection for the more noble anthems of the Anglican tradition will need no excuse to grab a...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/2015
Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien require no introduction. So well known are they (courtesy of an extensive discography) that it’s easy to...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2015
It is difficult to believe that Adrianne Pieczonka has built up some years of experience of singing taxing Strauss and...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 10/2015
At a first, superficial listening, this hour-long selection of Silvestrov’s a cappella choral music gives an impression of sumptuous solace,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2015
To call this a disc of simple pleasures is to do it a disservice, yet it is the apparent straightforwardness...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2015
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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