Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Like many rock musicians who managed to piggyback their radical ideals off a 1970s music industry still prepared to sign...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 10/2014
Competition is hotting up in Hindemith’s viola sonatas. They have fared better than most of his works in this genre,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2014
A title with a message, a message worth pondering. Negotiating context is what good composers aspire to and what complacent...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 10/2014
Jennifer Pike may only be 24 but she’s already an established figure on the music scene and, together with her...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2014
Venezuela’s El Sistema must bring a blush to the cheeks of most governments (especially here in the comparatively well heeled...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2014
This collection of guitar concertos largely inspired by Australia’s Top End is as much a tribute to Peter Sculthorpe, who...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2014
'Hidden Treasures of Italy’ is what the Montreal-based Arion Baroque Orchestra have called this release; and indeed, when the most...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2014
For ‘Escape to Paradise’, Daniel Hope has brought together two generations of composers who were and are linked indelibly to...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2014
It is always a pleasure to hear the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, whatever they play. I say this because...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2014
To commemorate Jeanne Lamon’s 33 years as Music Director of the Toronto-based Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, this issue is a compilation...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2014
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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