Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Four Bach works alternate with five of Thomas Ospital’s own improvisations and a set of six Études-Chorals by Thierry Escaich....
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2018
Orlando Cela brings an adventurer’s spirit to ‘Shadow Etchings’, his disc of new music for flute. Each work requires the...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 05/2018
Most of the works on the newest release from the San Francisco Girls Chorus are receiving their first recordings, which...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 05/2018
The North Texas Wind Symphony are nothing if not industrious, with a recording history going back to the late 1980s....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2018
Adam Estes’s tribute to Francois Rossé, who studied with Messiaen and collaborates with saxophone great Jean-Marie Londeix, is a brilliant...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2018
As 21st-century wind concertos go, this is as entertaining as it gets. I have not encountered the music of Frank...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2018
Sara Feigin (1928-2011) pursued a multifaceted career as pianist, composer and educator, first in her native Latvia and subsequently in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2018
While Michel Corrette’s methods and writings rank alongside those by Geminiani, CPE Bach, Quantz and Tartini, fate has been less...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2018
There are many lovely things on this recording of songs by Garth Baxter about loss and memory, and of marrying...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2018
This anniversary set places under one attractive, inevitably large yet manageably portable roof all of Birgit Nilsson’s major-label recordings (the...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2018
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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