Review - QUAD 33/303
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
Strauss’s Josephslegende is a bit of a slog. An hour-long ballet, written for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and premiered in Paris...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2013
Bent Sørensen has been on the Nordic connoisseur’s radar for nearly 30 years now, and although a fair amount of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2013
Nothing gave me greater pleasure when listening to these three CDs than Gerald English’s performance of the Britten Serenade, his...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2013
Osmo Vänskä’s new Sibelius cycle continues with the First and Fourth, a pairing he evidently likes, as that is how...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2013
You expect quality from this source – and you get it here, in abundance. But words like ‘bloom’ and ‘beauty’...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2013
The organisers of the Lucerne Festival and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra had the idea to mark their 2011 12 season...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2013
Mozart’s late clarinet masterpieces for Anton Stadler, the Concerto especially, have acquired autumnal, even valedictory associations. Yet those are not...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2013
The Fourth is a neo-classical symphony. So observes Riccardo Chailly in an accompanying feature which, unusually, reflects faithfully in words...
Reviewed by Quantrill in issue: 08/2013
A superb programme – and not only because it represents, in effect, a useful gathering of Janáček’s mature orchestral oeuvre....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2013
As an admitted non-specialist in the works of Louis Théodore Gouvy (1819 98), I am perhaps just the sort of...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris 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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