Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Mieczysπaw Weinberg’s time would certainly seem to be now. Advocacy plays a big part in that, of course, and recent...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2015
Stravinsky was a more than capable pianist, having been given rigorous training by a distinguished teacher, Leokadia Kashperova, who in...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 02/2015
This disc supplements the recent BIS release of instrumental music by Sofia Gubaidulina (A/14). So sei es – a 20-minute...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2015
Like Nikolaus Harnoncourt, René...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2015
Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto has never been more popular but for her second concerto collaboration on disc the young Armenian-born...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2015
Good news for pianophiles everywhere that Grigory Sokolov has, as DG put it, now signed an exclusive contract. This is...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2015
This is, to my mind, the finest volume yet in Sir Mark Elder’s unfolding Vaughan Williams cycle with the Hallé....
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2015
This is a glorious disc. Simply glorious. Anderszewski and Bach have long been congenial bedfellows and the Pole’s playing here...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2015
Sol Gabetta tells us in her notes that the title of her disc, ‘Prayer’, comes from her familiarity and identification...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 01/2015
Any chamber music recording that’s so forward-looking that the reward at the end is Ives’s Piano Trio deserves automatic respect....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2015
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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