Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
It may not go under the title of ‘Organ Fireworks’ but this latest offering from Christopher Herrick has all the...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2015
Xavier de Maistre last graced these pages in October 2013 with a stunning disc of Mozart. His performance of the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015
Pairing Ives with Second Viennese School composers is not usually the done thing. All the more reason then to attempt...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2015
The cello has never drawn the same crowds as the violin or piano – otherwise the cellist-composers on this recording...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2015
These two recitals have the Bartók Sonata as an important constituent but their focus is quite different. With Liza Ferschtman...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 07/2015
This astonishing six disc tribute to Jorge Bolet, taken from concerts dating from 1937 89 and from a variety of...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2015
Sabine Liebner on the Neos label is the place to go if you’re after a complete cycle of Galina Ustvolskaya’s...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2015
Discs of Sweelinck’s keyboard music are still surprisingly uncommon. Robert Woolley has made a fine if unhurried start on working...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2015
Sibelius’s Steinway grand was a gift from a large cohort of his supporters on his 50th birthday in 1915. That...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2015
If the outwardly enviable, note-perfect professionalism of so many of today’s pianists can leave you cold and dispirited, the reverse...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2015
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
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‘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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