Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Having included the Adagio alone in his complete Denon cycle of the symphonies (1/88), Inbal now tackles Deryck Cooke's performing...
Reviewed in issue 4/1993
They are integrated yet individual, four musicians each outstanding but not standing out as such. The internal balance of the...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2010
Previously unpublished, this recording qualifies under house rules for consideration alongside some selected comparisons. If I append none it is...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1985
Tuckwell's New World is very well played and the digital recording is bright, well balanced and clear. The Largo is...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1987
Muza Rubackyte’s recital, entitled ‘Parcours Satanique’, runs into direct competition with Earl Wild’s legendary Vanguard disc, ‘The Daemonic Liszt’ (2/92)....
Reviewed in issue 7/2001
After the pairing of Spohr's first two double quartets on Hyperion (A66141, 5/86), here is the companion record of the...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1986
If in recent times there has been a more beautiful or subtler account of the Letter Scene from Eugene Onegin...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/1997
An unusually absorbing Britten release, containing no less than three world-premiere recordings. The most striking discovery here has to be...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1999
No masterpieces here but a pleasant enough collection. I found Bernard Herrmann’s Echoes.the most intriguing. He always wanted to be...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/2008
Recording yet another version of one of the most popular concertos of all time isn't without risk; better, then, to...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 5/2008
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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