Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
In some respects this is a traditional Parsifal, with spears, a chalice, a grave for Titurel, a bed for Kundry’s...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2014
This Macbeth is the 62nd and final opera recording in English to be supported by Peter Moores – he started...
Reviewed in issue 06/2014
This comes from the third of the four consecutive spring seasons that celebrated Karajan’s return to the Vienna State Opera...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2014
We’re fortunate to have recordings of both the original 1737 version of Rameau’s opera Castor et Pollux (with prologue) and...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2014
Hindemith’s ‘Christmas story in three scenes’ has long been the Cinderella among his stage works, especially on disc. Although CPO...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014
Lalla Roukh (1862) was the fifth of the seven operas of Félicien David, a French contemporary of Mendelssohn, born in...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2014
Arriving just a little too late for inclusion in my comparative survey of West Side Story recordings for BBC Radio...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2014
Before discussing the music at hand, we need to address two incongruities. One: Shani Diluka calls her recital of 18...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2014
A new disc from Stephen Hough is always welcome. How will he surprise us this time and where will he...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2014
David Geringas is very much of the school of his teacher Rostropovich when it comes to the Bach Suites: the...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2014
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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