Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Although he has been well served on disc, this is the first release on a ‘major’ label devoted to Pascal...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2014
Although Richard Causton provides extensive and interesting programme notes to enhance one’s appreciation and understanding of the orchestral and chamber...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2014
Rarities galore jostle for attention on these anthologies. Vol 1 launches in propitious fashion with the tone-poem Lamia by Handsworth-born...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2014
There are few composers of such profound sincerity and absorbing interest as Ernest Bloch. He said that he had no...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 06/2014
Interesting that the symphony included here that is played by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe Claudio Abbado recorded with the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2014
This issue faces strong competition from the Gramophone Award-winning recording of the same two works by Isabelle Faust, with Abbado...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2014
The coupling of Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto with Schumann’s epic Fantasie is, to say the least, ambitious. The ancient Greeks would...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2014
Still very much with us at the age of 86, Leon Fleisher made these Cologne recordings midway between his winning...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2014
Julia Zilberquit’s Bach concerto cycle for Musical Heritage Society gains a new lease of catalogue life on Warner Classics. The...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2014
Bravo to the young American violinist Chad Hoopes for choosing such an unusual coupling of concertos for his debut CD....
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
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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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