Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Often I wonder whether the unstoppable rise of Morton Feldman would have been possible without the CD. Pieces that run...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015
This highly accomplished group, based in New York, takes its name from the legendary pianist Mieczysław Horszowski (1892-1993). Pianist Rieko...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2015
It makes an ideal coupling to have Brahms’s String Sextets, both charming works, on a single disc. It is striking...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2015
Instruments are carefully balanced, sound is good. But this recording, originally in SACD format, would audibly have been a lot...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2015
The oom pah figuration that launches Bartók’s Suite, Op 4 – which he arranged for two pianos in 1941 from...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015
For their third Steinway & Sons release, the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo dedicate their uncanny ensemble prowess and canny...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2015
A cynic might look at Roberto Alagna’s new disc, ‘My Life is an Opera’, and think, ‘At least he admits...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2015
A different branch of the record industry might have called this recital by the septuagenarian baritone ‘Leo Nucci unplugged’. For...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2015
Glossa’s series investigating the careers of major Italian Baroque singers continues with an examination of the Neapolitan castrato Domenico Gizzi...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2015
Piotr Beczała has built up such good will amid potentially troublesome Metropolitan Opera productions – from the Las Vegas Rigoletto...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2015
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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