Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
This disc might be more accurately titled ‘Complete Music for String Trio’, since only one fully fledged string trio is...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2012
NMC’s Debut Discs series continues with a timely profile of Dai Fujikura – Osaka-born and London-based, whose music is an...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 12/2012
As a composer-violinist Enescu didn’t provide a large part of his own concert repertoire, as his 19th-century predecessors had done....
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2012
While not quite matching the dynamism and idiomatic accents of the Pavel Haas Quartet, the Cecilia String Quartet offer a...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2012
Raphael Wallfisch has recorded Delius’s Cello Sonata before on Chandos and, if you prefer major couplings such as Bax, Bridge,...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2012
Two young British artists, both winners of international prizes, the cellist Philip Higham and the pianist Simon Lane, form an...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2012
One of the many notable things about the Tokyo Quartet is that they play the ‘Paganini’ quartet of instruments by...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 12/2012
It is great to have a new recording from the Eton Choirbook, that astonishing collection of English church music from...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: AW/2012
Pia Heise has an attractive voice and sings with appealing candour. Roger Vignoles is an attentive, vastly experienced accompanist. Yet...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW/2012
Much is made of Virpi Räisänen’s dual career path. Though an accomplished violinist, she is now making her name as...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW/2012
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
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‘What emerges is a sense of a musician of true grit and principle, one who fought for what she...
Andrew Farach-Colton on the Channel Classics recordings of Pieter Wispelwey
Rob Cowan immerses himself in collections devoted to three composers and a quartet
David Gutman welcomes two collections released to celebrate the conductor’s career
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