Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
A brand-new label showcasing both the National Symphony Orchestra and their home – the Kennedy Center – in Washington DC...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2020
What an attractive programme this is, the DVD cover an alluring bright red, vivid orange and sky blue, Marin Alsop...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2020
For the final instalment of the ‘Resound Beethoven’ series, recorded in Viennese venues that survive from the composer’s day, Martin...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2020
One of the choicest offerings thus far this celebratory Beethoven year is the powerfully compelling collaboration of Kristian Bezuidenhout and...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2020
Alexandre Tharaud has been nothing if not enterprising over his choice of repertoire, and this is equally evident in the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2020
I haven't been this struck by the orchestral expositions to Chopin's concertos since Jun Märkl with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2020
Buzz Brass’s previous recordings have included a version of The Planets for an expanded ensemble including organ and ‘Preludes and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020
Voces Musicales are an Estonian chamber choir founded in 1999. Their only other disc currently available in Presto Classical’s database...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020
In an absorbing album of music written since the turn of the century, Paul Reale displays his Prospero-like command of...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2020
When David Maslanka died on August 7, 2017, barely five weeks after his wife and three weeks shy of his...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2020
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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