Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
In her magnificent recent biography of Charlotte Moorman – the New York cellist who moulded modern composition towards sexualised performance...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2015
This is Bernard Haitink’s first recording of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, a remarkable fact in itself which becomes doubly so when...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2015
This is an atmospheric anthology, fastidiously chosen and delivered by this fine choir. The Barber Agnus Dei, the vocal version...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 08/2015
The discography of Bach’s motets is as extensive and diverse as that devoted to any iconic set of Baroque choral...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2015
The mystique of the ‘Vor Bach’ generations has intensified in the last 30 years, from the early recorded forays of...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2015
Andris Nelsons’s first (live) recording as Music Director of the Boston Symphony is quite something. It carries the title ‘Under...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2015
The young Italian baritone Paolo Bordogna rattles and prattles his way through this programme of comic arias with an easy...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2015
Swedish soprano Miah Persson uses this recital to go a grade or two heavier than her accustomed Mozart, Handel and...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2015
What? Simon Boccanegra without Plácido Domingo in the title-role? Ever since Dmitri Hvorostovsky began stepping carefully into the heavier Verdi...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2015
A promenade performance round London’s Holland Park of Will Todd’s opera for children must have been a delightful experience, as...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 08/2015
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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