Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Leonard Elschenbroich pulls together this unusual programme of Soviet fare with his own intelligent and provocative booklet-note. He portrays Dmitry...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2015
Pasi Pirinen is the Principal Trumpet for both the Helsinki Philharmonic and Avanti! Chamber orchestras, as well as a prize-winning...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2015
One definition of Allegro aperto, the direction in the first movement of the Oboe Concerto, reads ‘an allegro with broad,...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2015
Broadway-Lafayette is a New York City subway station in Manhattan, so someone will have to explain to me its relevance...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2015
Having recorded the piano music of his fellow countrymen Soler and Granados (4/12), Luis Fernando Pérez now turns his attention...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 02/2015
Marcus Bosch is at his best in the lyrical second subject of the Fourth Symphony’s finale, which has something of...
Reviewed in issue AW2014
For guitarist/composers such as these three, writing for guitar and orchestra is always a dialectical process. On the one hand,...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2015
Every culture gets the Beethoven Ninth it deserves. This is not the Ninth to pair with A Survivor from Warsaw,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2015
In a note appended to this exceptional version of the Suites – performed by single players at a lower pitch,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2015
Gonzalez X Ruiz and Monica Huggett apply long-established scholarly theories that Bach must presumably have written oboe concertos, now lost,...
Reviewed by David Vickers 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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