Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Serebrier is not only one of those prominent conductors who takes the opportunity to launch his own music, however tempting...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 13/2003
Just as Philips presented the set of the Beethoven piano sonatas played by Alfred Brendel in a specially attractive package...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1985
The first German baritone to record Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel? Only in the occasional over-stressed syllable does Dietrich Henschel...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 9/2006
New recordings of the Fourth, Fifth, and Seventh Symphonies complete what must be regarded as an historic set of performances,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1989
The 11th volume of Ton Koopman’s complete series of Buxtehude’s works (the fourth of “Opera omnia” to include vocal music)...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 5/2010
This commemoration (not ‘celebration’, Archiv!) of the 300th anniversary of the death of Biber is subtitled ‘In the midst of...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 2/2005
These three serenades, cassations or divertimentos (the titles seem to have been fairly freely interchangeable) were all written in Salzburg...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 10/1985
I had mixed feelings about Olivier Baumont's recording of Rameau's complete solo harpsichord works (Adda, 5/90). Technically he is an...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1993
For a composer without an anniversary (though he was without doubt at the height of his powers 200 years ago),...
Reviewed in issue 7/1988
Although Uuno Klami’s relatively early death in 1961, aged 61, deprived Finland of one of its senior figures, his reputation...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 7/2003
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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