Review - QUAD 33/303
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
Recorded between 1975 and 1979 in excellent analogue sound, Muti's Tchaikovsky cycle with the Philharmonia is one of the most...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1991
It was in French music that I first heard and admired Gordon Fergus-Thompson in 1986 and I am delighted that...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1990
Opinions about Reger’s music tend to be polarised between admirers and detractors. The latter group would say of him, as...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 1/2001
How do I interest you in this latest addition to the increasingly stressed shelves on which CD shops display their...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2000
This is an enchanting CD, every item a sheer delight. Margaret Leng Tan worked with Cage in the last decade...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/2000
A reviewer learns to beware of the words “first”, “last” and “only”, but I’m happy to quote Tony Scotland, author...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2009
Now on CD it has become the norm to have both of these favourite Mendelssohn symphonies on a single disc,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1987
Knowing and admiring Pascal Roge's playing of Poulenc's music for solo piano and some of his chamber works, I thought...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1993
This is rather special. Perhaps the greatest pleasure of this disc is Finnissy’s re-evaluation in each piece of the modes...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/1998
Horowitz’s final public appearance after a career of nearly seven decades is ipso facto a poignant souvenir d’occasion. Taped by...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2008
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
‘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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