Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Despite his prolific creative output and long-held prominence as the founder and conductor of important new music ensembles, Theodore Antoniou...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018
‘Metamorphoses’: a curious name for an ensemble devoted to the rather limited repertoire for clarinet, viola and piano, of which...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2018
Remarkably, recorded versions of Weinberg’s Piano Quintet are now up around double figures. Maybe not so remarkably, because this is...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2018
Shostakovich is something of a departure on disc for both the Belcea Quartet and Piotr Anderszewski but a very welcome...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2018
This debut recording by the Trio Vitruvi leaves me frankly perplexed. On the one hand, I’m impressed by these young...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
As the cover billing suggests, Isabelle Faust is very much the guiding light in this period-instrument Octet. Yet her creative...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2018
‘A conversation between two instruments instead of a debate between two virtuosos’ is how Saint-Saëns described La Muse et le...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2018
Parry made no secret of his musical lineage. ‘Zweite Quartette C dur’, wrote the 20-year-old composer on the score of...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2018
The cellist Marcy Rosen was a founding member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet and remained with the ensemble for more...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
We have the Philharmonie de Paris’s Musée de la Musique to thank for this thoughtful programme from Ensemble Amarillis, because...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2018
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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