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...
At the risk of invoking Thomas Beecham, I absolutely love the sound this ensemble make, especially the clarity and agility...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 10/2023
Now for something completely different. The recording takes its title from The Enchanted Places, the 1974 memoir by Christopher Milne,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2023
Popular in her lifetime, then ignored for decades, Cécile Chaminade’s mélodies have edged their way back into the repertory of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2023
A collection of Byrd consort songs with Helen Charlston has been a major desideratum since she first hit the headlines...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2023
In a personal note accompanying this release, baritone Thomas Oliemans defends Brahms’s Romanzen aus ‘Die schöne Magelone’ as a true...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2023
Hélène Grimaud’s new DG release, ‘For Clara’, is a bouquet of works by the two composers closest to Clara Wieck...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2023
Québécoise contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux is an inimitable performer, a real personality who delivers with an engaging commitment to text. These...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2023
Spread over two discs, this new, beautifully presented recording features the complete surviving motets by JS Bach set in the...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2023
Next year is the tercentenary of the first performance of Bach’s St John Passion on Good Friday 1724, so expect...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2023
The questionable durability of Bach recordings from the Thomanerchor Leipzig is an interesting phenomenon. While the choir has always carried...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2023
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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