Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
After a brilliant and refined recording success in Albéniz’s Iberia, Kotaro Fukuma moves to a more wintry clime. In his...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015
Originally on Ivory Classics, this glorious two-CD album is now lavishly reissued to mark Nadia Reisenberg’s 110th anniversary. A voice...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015
Three tips of the hat for this one: first to Cathedral Music for sponsoring the CD and making available again...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2015
This is Boris Giltburg’s first disc since he signed to Naxos. His previous recordings on Orchid, of barnstorming repertoire from...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2015
A number of highly cultivated pianists have been drawn to Mussorgsky’s Pictures over the past few years, among them Leif...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2015
Writing in her personal and engaging notes, Angela Hewitt tells us that Liszt’s B minor Sonata is ‘quite simply one...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015
Costantino Catena has performed the complete piano music of Liszt – a gargantuan task – and his present two-CD album...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015
The austerity of presentation as favoured by the Another Timbre label is doubtless intended to place emphasis wholly on the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2015
‘Le rossignol éperdu’ is to Hahn what Lieder ohne Worte is to Mendelssohn and Lyric Pieces to Grieg. It is...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2015
From a renowned champion and award-winning interpreter of the north German Baroque repertory, it comes as something of a shock...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2015
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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