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 is Bernard Haitink’s first recording of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, a remarkable fact in itself which becomes doubly so when...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2015
This is an atmospheric anthology, fastidiously chosen and delivered by this fine choir. The Barber Agnus Dei, the vocal version...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 08/2015
The discography of Bach’s motets is as extensive and diverse as that devoted to any iconic set of Baroque choral...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2015
The mystique of the ‘Vor Bach’ generations has intensified in the last 30 years, from the early recorded forays of...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2015
Andris Nelsons’s first (live) recording as Music Director of the Boston Symphony is quite something. It carries the title ‘Under...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2015
The young Italian baritone Paolo Bordogna rattles and prattles his way through this programme of comic arias with an easy...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2015
Swedish soprano Miah Persson uses this recital to go a grade or two heavier than her accustomed Mozart, Handel and...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2015
What? Simon Boccanegra without Plácido Domingo in the title-role? Ever since Dmitri Hvorostovsky began stepping carefully into the heavier Verdi...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2015
A promenade performance round London’s Holland Park of Will Todd’s opera for children must have been a delightful experience, as...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 08/2015
Only a matter of months after the release of a new CD recording of Strauss’s second opera (CPO’s fine Munich...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2015
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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