Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
For Tatyana Nikolaieva, Nikolai Lugansky was ‘the next one’, and her admiration is underlined in this outstanding recital. Lugansky’s approach...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2012
This disc gathers together all of composer, pianist and fellow Gramophone critic Peter Dickinson’s piano rags, blues and stylistic take-offs,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2012
For his debut recital disc, the young French pianist Jonas Vitaud offers Brahms’s Op 79 Rhapsodies and the Op 117,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2012
This CD completes a trilogy born of the deeply collaborative partnership between Swiss-born Baroque violinist Maya Homburger and British composer...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 02/2012
Elina Mustonen, a harpsichordist from Finland who studied with Ton Koopman, is a fine player, scrupulously attentive to the music...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 02/2012
Despite the boundaries between classical and popular music becoming increasingly blurred, there’s always been a market for serious music that...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2012
The rant in question is an entertainingly free arrangement of one of the most popular 17th-century Italian dance songs, published...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 02/2012
This is an attractive recital of transcriptions of favourite Spanish pieces – I hesitate to describe them as ‘lollipops’ as...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 02/2012
When reviewing the Danels’ first two instalments (3/08, 2/09), I was as impressed by their preparation and absorption in Weinberg’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2012
The most substantial piece on this record of all Tchaikovsky’s chamber music for violin is actually an arrangement, one he...
Reviewed by John Warrack 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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