Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
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DVOŘÁK Symphony No 7. Othello Overture. The Wild Dove
The art of Claus Peter Flor appears to have matured greatly with the passing of time. I can recall interviewing...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2012
DEBUSSY Orchestral Works
As Stéphane Denève bows out as music director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, he bequeaths a valuable Gallic legacy...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2012
CATOIRE & SHERWOOD Piano Concertos
The modern rediscovery of Georgy Catoire’s modestly proportioned oeuvre was kick-started by Marc-André Hamelin’s 1999 Hyperion recital (1/00 – soon...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2012
CASELLA Concerto for Orchestra, Op 61. Symphonic Fragments from 'La donna serpente', Op 50
The music of Alfredo Casella (1883-1947) charts a fascinating stylistic journey. Early in his career he was a bold progressive...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2012
BRUCKNER Symphony No 9
In an appreciative tribute to the four musicians who put together the ‘performing version’ of the finale featured on this...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2012
BRUCKER Symphony No 5
‘Involvement’ is the keyword here, Claudio Abbado himself relaxed (or seemingly so), alert, exultant or visibly pleased as suits the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2012
BRAHMS Symphony No 3 ELGAR Symphony No 1
‘First CD release’ proclaims the artwork – an assertion that only holds true for the Brahms, its bedfellow having already...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2012
R STRAUSS Die Frau ohne Schatten
The Woman without a Shadow, completed during the First World War but not staged till 1919, was Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2012
MOZART The Marriage of Figaro
The first time I saw Figaro was in Vienna on September 1, 1964, the first night of the new season....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2012
MONTEVERDI Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
No doubt it is a commonplace to point out that Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria is the least popular of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2012
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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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