Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
A symphony in pink and blue, the candy-coloured hardback book is enough to give you toothache. The irrepressible Cecilia Bartoli...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2018
Well over six hours long, this series now surpasses The Sixteen’s as the largest discographic survey ever devoted to the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2017
This is a treasure trove of rare music, much of which must surely be receiving first recordings. Baroque opera has...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2018
Not usually a paragon of moderation or elegance, Bo Skovhus has continued his traversal of Schubert Lieder with a Winterreise...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2018
The Vasari Singers join an ever-expanding field with this new recording of a work that was once considered very exotic...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2017
With a half-Tchaikovsky, half-Rachmaninov programme, a Russian singer with an Anglo-friendly voice plus an even better pianist, this set is...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2018
Five world premieres and a beautifully constructed programme make this disc from Suzi Digby and London chamber choir Voce rather...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2018
Liszt’s songs were all originally written for high or middle voices, and there has been a tendency of late, as...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2017
The Mass settings of Kodály and Poulenc were composed within six years of each other (1937-42), and with mixed choirs...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2018
Robert Hugill’s name may be familiar as the author of the classical music blog Planet Hugill, but he is also...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2017
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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