Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
By coincidence, I am reviewing this new recording of Clara Wieck Schumann’s Concerto in A minor as the city of...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2019
This is Toccata Classics’ fourth CD of music by the American Arnold Rosner (1945-2013), and I think it is the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2019
It’s now some 10 years since JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic gave us their first Respighi disc, a programme...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019
Markus Becker’s love affair with Reger’s piano oeuvre first manifested itself on CD with the complete solo piano music, initially...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2019
Although virtually unknown outside his native land, Alberto Nepomuceno (1864-1920) is one of the luminaries of Brazilian music. He composed...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2019
Josef Mysliveček (1737 81) was 26 years old when he left his native Prague for Italy, where he studied with...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2019
Erwin Stein’s arrangement of the Fourth set the precedent for attempts to compress and deconstruct Mahler that have more recently...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2019
Pity the poor bassoon, imprisoned in the depths of the woodwind section, usually let out only for brief comedy turns,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2019
One of Haydn’s oddest commissions came from a church in Cádiz for a sequence of orchestral ‘sonatas’ depicting each of...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2019
Giovanni Giornovich (1747-1804) was perhaps born at sea, definitely baptised in Palermo, probably held a French passport and certainly appeared...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp 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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