Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Some of the contrasts in character between the many movements of these six sonatas that are so easily achieved on...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2014
Ah! Melancholia, aka ‘black bile’, yet socially fashionable in late-16th- and early-17th-century England. And wonder not why John Dowland isn’t...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2014
In 1998 OxRecs released a critically acclaimed disc of music released to celebrate the installation of the new Nicholson organ...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2014
This intriguingly varied recital takes its title from ‘Harmonies du soir’, grandest and most expansive of Liszt’s 12 Transcendental Etudes....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2014
What gives distinction to this disc of 20th-century French organ music by the usual suspects is the recording location –...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2014
How do you interpret Molto moderato as a tempo in the first movement of D960? Awkward question, which probably explains...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2014
Bertrand Chamayou, on his first disc for Erato, offers a kind of Schubertiade of the mind – and it proves...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2014
Alfred Schnittke may not have written the most idiomatic and finger-friendly piano music of his time. Yet he surely understood...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2014
Following five issues of Roussel’s orchestral music, Naxos now gives us the first of a three-volume set of the piano...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2014
William Youn is a young Korean pianist who plans to record the complete Mozart piano sonatas over a five-year period....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2014
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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