Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Admirers of Neeme Järvi’s recordings of the Tchaikovsky ballets with the Bergen Philharmonic will know that he is just the...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2014
We have an inbuilt expectation these days for precisioned, sonically impressive Mahler – and this Sixth is no exception. But...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2014
These two fine Honegger symphonies make for an invigorating coupling, the gritty and muscular Second for strings and trumpet from...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2014
‘Nobody cares what I have done; in Paris people think only of themselves and of the present…More and more I...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2014
Now holding posts in Tokyo, Geneva and Monte Carlo, 30 year-old Kazuki Yamada has perhaps been too busy to return...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2014
More gaps in the catalogue valiantly plugged by Cameo Classics. Angela Brownridge has already proved an assiduous champion of her...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2014
The title’s stretching it a bit with the inclusion of Ernst Widmer, who became a naturalised Brazilian at the age...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2014
A film of a symphony in live performance filmed just three years after an audio recording of the same piece...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2014
Right from the opening pp tremolando you can tell that as an interpretation this is going to be something off...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2014
Guro Kleven Hagen, at 20 years old, already plays with great assurance and true artistry. Her account of the Prokofiev...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 08/2014
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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