Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
There was a time when collectors must have thought that the sublime outpouring of grace and goodwill that is Bruckner’s...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2018
Gerd Schaller has made something of a speciality of performing rarely heard or forgotten Bruckner scores. This new recording of...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2018
Joshua Bell was in his teens when he first recorded the Bruch G minor and Mendelssohn concertos with Neville Marriner...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
Alpha is a label that gets ever more wide-ranging, as witness the discs of Shostakovich chamber music (see page 63)...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2018
Claudio Abbado stepped down from his post as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in May 2002 on the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2018
The opening orchestral tutti seems to augur well for this new account of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto. I do miss the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
There can’t be many ensembles around as stylistically fleet-footed as Hamburg’s Ensemble Resonanz. I’m still thinking fondly back to their...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2018
Tor Aulin (1866-1914) had a tough life. He was three when his father died, his mother was heartlessly strict, and...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
This panorama of visionary sound and process from Morton Feldman and contemporaries covers a period in American music when Feldman,...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2018
There was a time when The Rite of Spring put an orchestra through its paces, and the palpable effort of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
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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