Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Just to clarify, this latest Schubert release is a mix of Paul Lewis old and new. The last two sonatas...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/14
Aside from the clear yet somewhat bright engineering, the first thing an astute listener will notice about this Mozart recital...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2014
After penning Farewell, which Paul O’Dette describes as Dowland’s greatest solo lute work, the composer was to live for 30...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2014
The most striking thing about Jamie Walton in the interview that opens Paul Joyce’s film of Benjamin Britten’s three Cello...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2014
York Bowen (1884-1961) became the cruel victim of passing and dismissive fashion, his lovingly crafted, lyrically haunting ideas swept aside....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2014
Although Claudio Arrau’s Beethoven hardly lacks catalogue representation, this first release of live Swedish Radio performances from April 5, 1960,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2014
‘Passion and Fantasy’ is the eye-catching title for Sophia Agranovich’s recital of Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata and Chopin’s Fantaisie and B...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2014
Normally one concludes a review with comments about sound quality, but in this case the engineering’s full-bodied piano sonority and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2014
Finally, the Ukrainian viola player Maxim Rysanov has completed his collection of JS Bach’s Cello Suites transcribed for viola after...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2014
The Bingham Quartet have long included new commissions in concerts and this disc collates works mainly written either side of...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2014
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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