Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
The art-music repertoire for electric guitar is not extensive, a smattering of concertos aside (not least Fuchs’s Glacier – Naxos,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019
When Bruce Levingston was invited to give a recital for the opening of the Civil Rights museum in his home...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2019
Carl Vollrath (b1931) was a new name to me when this delightful disc of piano trios dropped through my letterbox....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019
Now in his early forties, Matthew Quayle has amassed a catalogue of almost 50 works in a range of genres....
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2019
David Owen Carpenter (b1972) was born in Poughkeepsie, NY, though is now resident in Philadelphia, and is an alumnus of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019
Nearly everything about this disc arrives like a bolt out of the blue. The poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) was quite...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2019
As debut solo albums go, the Korean cellist Hee-Young Lim’s Abbey Road-recorded programme of French cello concertos – with the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2019
What a welcome sight it has been for a second disc from Decca’s young Dutch recorder champion Lucie Horsch to...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2019
The Tippett who wrote the Third and Fourth Symphonies between 1970 and 1977 was, inevitably, a rather different composer from...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2019
Whoever said that old forms were dead? The concerto has enjoyed a new lease of life during the past few...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2019
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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