Review - QUAD 33/303
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
Kairos’s Lachenmann discography already extends into double figures. This double-CD presents the expanded version of his choral piece Les Consolations,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2011
I was particularly grateful to receive this set, principally because it affords me the opportunity of putting to rights...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2011
Not for the Belcea Quartet is Op 18 No 5 meant to echo the spirit of Mozart as it does...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 08/2013
This compilation recreates one of The Sixteen’s concert programmes, focusing on English choral music from Tallis to Tippett (with a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2013
Paul Van Nevel has been recording early polyphony with the Huelgas Ensemble for almost 40 years, but has not previously...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2013
This disc of 13 anthems from the Choirbook for the Queen includes all 11 of its special commissions, and suspends...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 08/2013
Thomas Dausgaard’s early-Romantic-era recordings, played in smaller-scale performances by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, have offered discreet transformations of well-loved works,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2013
Although the rich textures and adventurous harmonies of composers like Lauridsen and Whitacre may be fashionable, music of a more...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 08/2013
Boulez’s recordings become more precious the less we hear from him. He still has so much to say about the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2013
The combination of Westminster Cathedral Choir and MacMillan is irresistible. We are drawn immediately into their complicity by the jaw-dropping...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2013
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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