Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
David Goode has now reached Vol 7 in his series of Bach’s complete organ works, recorded once again on the...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2018
There’s a surprise for anyone who puts on this recording without looking at the booklet first: its opening notes are...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2018
To build a programme of 17th-century music for tenor and ensemble around the myth of Orpheus and not include ‘Possente...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2018
This juxtaposition of Handel and Rameau is an interesting proposition because the soloist is the boy treble Askel Rykkvin (whose...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2018
The opening chords of Gabriel Jackson’s Stabat mater, their dissonant points hammered like nails into the ear, make for an...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2018
‘That bloody Gluepot’ was how an infuriated Sir Henry Wood described The George, a bustling public house just round the...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2018
As this collection and its accompanying notes remind us, the music came first and the poetry followed for Emily Dickinson....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2018
Sebastián Vivanco (d1622) was a slightly younger contemporary of Victoria and one of the last exponents of Spain’s Golden Age....
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2018
The Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble presents the St Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastiani (1622 83), who was Kantor...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2018
Schumann lightly reorchestrated one of Bach’s most affective cantatas in 1849 for a Dresden choral society of his own foundation....
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2018
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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