Review - QUAD 33/303
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
The affecting, chilling bleakness of ‘Gute Nacht’ immediately suggests that this is going to be a Winterreise of vision and...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2014
Upon hearing this terrific release for the first time, I remarked to a friend that it could easily have been...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2014
The Nightingale Quartet’s first volume of Rued Langgaard (6/12) brought to attention a quartet output which, though not unknown, was...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2014
If any genre is likely to tap the emotional resources of a great composer, it’s the violin concerto – Vivaldi...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2014
Perhaps you have observed the recent explosion of Weinberg recordings and are wondering whether the pendulum may have swung too...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2014
Despite the steady number of works that have appeared on various labels, Augusta Read Thomas (b1964) has not had the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2014
From Claudio Abbado to Günter Wand, this greatest of all unfinished masterpieces has repeatedly appealed to great conductors nearing the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2014
If their brutalisation of Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto is anything to go by, Valery Gergiev’s partnership with Denis Matsuev threatens...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2014
The lasting impression that lingers on from this disc is of a perfect blending of eight voices to complement an...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2014
Marc-André Hamelin’s normally genial features cloud at the description of him as a ‘super virtuoso’. For him such apparent praise...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2014
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
‘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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