Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Here we have two performances of selected Bach keyboard concertos, both on modern piano, and they couldn’t be more different....
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 02/2012
This is one of the first fruits of the musical partnership between the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and its new principal...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2012
Reviewing can be a frustrating business sometimes: recordings that bode so well on paper but disappoint in reality, or others...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2012
The disc opens with one of Thomas Weelkes’s most familiar anthems, Hosanna to the Son of David, in a performance...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2012
Forget the unctuous title: this documentary, broadcast last year in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Victoria’s death, strikes the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2012
The al fresco exuberance of ‘Bei dir allein’ gets this recital off to a delectable start: Camilla Tilling’s vernal tone...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2012
Burdened inwardness has long been Matthias Goerne’s hallmark. Here, even more than in his live recording with Brendel, he seems...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2012
As Purcell song programmes go, this one is not easy listening. Perhaps only the Evening Hymn would count as a...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2012
In January 1744 Porpora was appointed maestro di coro at the Ospedale dei Derelitti (the ‘Ospedaletto’), one of the four...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue:
As the earliest surviving example of a famous genre, a certain mystique attaches to Ockeghem’s Requiem, which now boasts an...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2012
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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