Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Antheil composed his first three violin sonatas in 1923 24, while he was living and working in Europe. They are...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2019
Extravagantly premiered at the Queen’s Theatre, Haymarket, in 1711, Rinaldo made Handel’s reputation in London and received more stagings, at...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2019
It’s been a long time since a singer has generated as much buzz as the Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen, Gramophone’s...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2019
On his tireless voyage of ceremonial and liturgical reconstruction, Paul McCreesh’s 20th-century coronation anthology is arguably his most ambitious and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2019
A work that tends to bring out the best in the singers who have tackled it, Poème de l’amour et...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2019
Here’s an analogy for András Schiff’s second disc in his survey of Schubert’s late works on his Brodmann fortepiano. Imagine...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2019
Ah, this is more like it! Bach played with no hang-ups, using the full resources of a magnificent organ (the...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2019
With performances by Steve Reich and Musicians – Reich’s own group – becoming a far less regular occurrence these days,...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2019
There’s little in Beethoven’s output that’s undervalued but I have the sense that the cello sonatas don’t quite get the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2019
Last year the American countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo gave us a recital pairing music by Philip Glass and Handel (Decca)....
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2019
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
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‘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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