Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
I’m not sure what inspired Magnificat’s director, Philip Cave, to fly the flag for Philippe Rogier but this recording vindicates...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2012
This important new release of a cappella music by Francis Pott draws its title from the final line of Wilfrid...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2012
There have been many recordings of Orff’s ever-popular Carmina Burana but relatively few of the chamber version. Orff made the...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 02/2012
Recordings of the Missa choralis (1865) are thin on the ground. The current benchmark is Matthew Best’s on Hyperion, coupled...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2012
Six months before coming together (with a host of other musicians) to perform Havergal Brian’s Gothic Symphony at last year’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2012
While there is strength to some of Honegger’s works, not least his oratorio Le roi David and the orchestral Pacific...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2012
Anders Eliasson (b1947) has a reputation as something of an outsider in Swedish music. Now in his mid-sixties, he has...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue:
Ton Koopman’s slow-burning project to record Buxtehude’s complete works continues its inexorable path with eight little-known geistliche Konzerte (sacred concertos)....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2012
I hadn’t come across these singers before: they are quite wonderful. Much is explained by the reference in the booklet...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2012
Following the pattern of earlier volumes in his complete Brahms Lied edition, Graham Johnson has again mapped a more-or-less chronological...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2012
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
‘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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