Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
‘De Bach à Mozart’ this disc calls itself – ‘following the path of the trio sonata’. It would be hard...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2005
Performed on the first days of the new millennium, this Pilgrimage volume has an especially candid coherence about it. These...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2009
Like the traditional understatement of the British, cool Gallic reserve is all very well, but can be carried too far....
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1986
Anyone seeking evidence of how keenly Martha Argerich can adjust her personality to suit the interpretative preferences of her colleagues...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 6/2009
The “inexpressible delight” experienced by the Earl of Shaftesbury when he attended a rehearsal of Berenice was not shared by...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2010
The note in the leaflet begins: ‘Today’s audience often find it difficult to comprehend what makes Vincenzo Bellini’s operas remarkable’....
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2004
This is special, controversial, perhaps, but special. I've not heard the up-and-coming young Austrian conduct Mahler before hope I will...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/1988
Pro Organo, two minutes’ worth of harmless and innocent tranquillity, opens this second volume of Kevin Bowyer’s Alkan cycle, but...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 6/2008
My review of Abbado's 1985 recording on DG made much of its warmth. Bathed in Italian sunshine, it is a...
Reviewed in issue 8/1987
The CD booklet calls The Music Teacher an opera, but when this collaboration between composer Allen Shawn and his brother,...
Reviewed by Lawrence Johnson in issue: 9/2008
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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