Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Belgian composer Philippe Boesmans, just turned 79, was a close associate-cum-student of Henri Pousseur and the composers around him in...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2015
On paper, Vanessa Benelli Mosell’s ‘revolution/evolution’ concept seems provocative enough to draw attention. In reality, the thorny, intricate serial landscapes...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2015
Entitled ‘Light and Shadows’, Tom Poster’s thoughtful recital is arguably more shadows than light. As his own accompanying note explains,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2015
In its concise but slow-feeling harmonic journey, Sibelius’s Intrada (1925) sounds almost like a Schenkerian harmonic plotting of a larger,...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2015
What factors determine your admission into the pantheon of great artists? Talent, of course, but also luck – or the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2015
Gerhard Stäbler came to music through the organ and today remains earthed in its history and base acoustic alchemy: an...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2015
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Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2015
Angular or strident sounds are not a part of Christian Blackshaw’s technique. Instead a horizontally even line and lucid touch...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 08/2015
Here are the two Everests of the organist’s 19th century repertoire with a sonata, placed between them, by the composer...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2015
Josef Hofmann was one of the very greatest pianists of the so-called Golden Age. He was also an inventor (when...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas 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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