Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Those who attended English National Opera’s production of Alexander Raskatov’s A Dog’s Heart in 2010 and came out both repulsed...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2015
Ensemble Amarillis commemorate Rameau with a balanced offering alternating two chamber cantatas and two chamber concertos from Pièces de clavecin...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2015
Following the 2013 release of Petrassi’s Magnificat and Salmo IX° (3/13), Gianandrea Noseda and the Orchestra e Coro Teatro Regio...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2015
To my knowledge this is only the second time a Monteverdi Vespers has fitted on to one CD, which may...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2015
The Melani clan of Pistoia spawned numerous successful musicians during the 17th century. Alessandro Melani (1639-1703) was the youngest of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2015
This is the fourth instalment in a musical biography of the true Renaissance man among late-Renaissance composers. As with preceding...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2015
Much of Balfour Gardiner’s music has remained under a bushel for years. Celebrated in church for his bracing anthem, Evening...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 02/2015
At their sublime best, Le Poème Harmonique’s recordings are so singular that comparisons with other performances of the same repertoire...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2015
This very enjoyable series continues its sequence of motets and hymns, with a Mass as the centerpiece – this time...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2015
It feels a little dangerous to say this, but the opening of Alisa Weilerstein’s ‘Solo’ hits the listener between the...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2015
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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