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...
It is tempting to speculate about what kind of music Charles II heard at his coronation at Westminster Abbey on...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2015
Lorin Maazel made his Proms debut with this work back in 1969, the first live performance of the score that...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015
This isn’t the first time that American choir Conspirare has gone head-to-head with Britain’s own Tenebrae. Last year the former’s...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2015
The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and their Finnish conductor, Heikki Seppänen, have left no musical stone unturned in their quest...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2015
Divining the intention behind Shostakovich’s cantatas is a favourite game for commentators. Hackwork carried out with a minimum of commitment?...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07
Wolfgang Rihm originally conceived Et lux for the four voices of the all-male Hilliard Ensemble and the Arditti String Quartet,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2015
The Christian Magnificat and the Jewish Kaddish are, you might think, completely different kinds of religious text. Yet judging by...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2015
As 80th-birthday presents go, this handsomely produced tribute to Arvo Pärt will take some surpassing. Recorded in 2012 and 2014,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2015
From the outset, the young Monteverdi knew how to clothe lovers’ torment in music so beguiling as to induce the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2015
Words taken from the Magnificat make a somewhat surprising opening to this second in the projected series of four Passion...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2015
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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