Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
It may be appropriate that a concert given on the centenary of Mahler’s death should contain his last completed symphonic...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2018
Reiner Riehn’s completion of Arnold Schoenberg’s chamber arrangement of Das Lied von der Erde has made several appearances on disc,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2018
It’s nearly 25 years since Paul Hillier’s Theatre of Voices recorded this St Matthew Passion (Harmonia Mundi, 9/94). As I...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2018
Michel Lambert was admired as a singer, lutenist and teacher in 17th-century Paris and, while remembered today as Lully’s father-in-law,...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2018
‘Leopold KoŽeluch is without question with young and old the most generally loved among our living composers, and this with...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2018
Gabriel Suovanen suggested Lars Karlsson (b1953) write a song-cycle for him when the two men ran into one another at...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2018
The avid amateur astronomer William Jackson (1730-1803) was director of music at Exeter Cathedral and a friend of Gainsborough. Michael...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2018
Little known today, Francesco Feo (1691 1761) was a Neapolitan composer and teacher, a contemporary of Leonardo Leo and Niccolò...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018
Nicholas Phan’s previous releases have shown him to be not only a fine singer but a fine programmer, too. His...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2018
Listening to this bright and honest Missa solemnis brings memories of the 1970s and early ’80s, when period-instrument bands and...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2018
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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