Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
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BLACKBURN Ghostly Psalms. Duluth Harbor Serenade
Everyone likes a composer with an unusual back story, and Philip Blackburn’s is more unusual than most. Born in Cambridge...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2012
BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis
Here are two live versions of Beethoven’s mighty work, recorded 35 years apart. The Cologne performance was taped in a...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2012
BACH Mass in B Minor, BWV232
This is Philippe Herreweghe’s third commercial recording of the Mass in B minor in 23 years and, unlike many conductors...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2012
BACH St John Passion
The St John Passion was one of Bach’s most ambitious undertakings soon after arriving in Leipzig in 1723 but the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2012
Neapolitan Cello Concertos
In 2010 we had Neapolitan flute concertos from Auser Musici (Hyperion, 4/10), and very nice they were too. Now here...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2012
British Flute Concertos
The flute and its predecessor, the recorder, have both attracted composers to write bravura concertos since the beginning of musical...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 08/2012
WIKLUND Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2
The Swedish composer Adolf Wiklund does not make it into every reference work and, unless you are a student of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2012
WEINBERG Symphony No 6
Word is beginning to get around that Weinberg’s Sixth should be on the shortlist for anyone wondering where to make...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2012
VIVALDI La Cetra - 12 Violin Concertos
La cetra (‘The Lyre’) was published in Amsterdam in 1727, dedicated to the Austrian emperor, Charles VI. (Confusingly, another manuscript...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 08/2012
SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Sayaka Shoji has excellent credentials as a player of these concertos. The cantabile lines that play an important role in...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 08/2012
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - QUAD 33/303
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
Review - The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach (Edited by E Douglas Bomberger)
‘What emerges is a sense of a musician of true grit and principle, one who fought for what she...
Review - Pieter Wispelwey: The Complete Channel Classics Recordings
Andrew Farach-Colton on the Channel Classics recordings of Pieter Wispelwey
Box-set Round-up: February 2025 (Gabriel Fauré, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schmidt)
Rob Cowan immerses himself in collections devoted to three composers and a quartet
Review - Michael Tilson Thomas box-sets from DG Eloquence and Sony
David Gutman welcomes two collections released to celebrate the conductor’s career
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