Review - QUAD 33/303
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
To be so moved by so little is to show in perfectly appropriate terms the very nature of these pieces,...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2013
A neat programme, this. Like a football tournament, ‘The London Flute’ sees an old rivalry – French music versus Italian...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2013
Hugo Wolf began his D minor Quartet in 1878; it was to occupy him for six years. Aged 18, he...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 09/2013
This near-complete set of Weinberg’s violin-and-piano works fills a significant gap in his discography (I say near-complete, because the two...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2013
In two quite different ways this is something of an assemblage. To an extent that was not untypical of the...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 09/2013
Period-instrument versions of Schubert’s piano trios are still relatively thin on the ground, so any new one is worth careful...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2013
These performances exhibit that feeling of spontaneous enjoyment which animated Ibragimova and Tiberghien’s live Beethoven set from the Wigmore Hall...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 09/2013
I had more than a few misgivings about the recent version of Souvenir de Florence from Sarah Nemtanu and friends....
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2013
While this is a disc of fairly central repertoire, it is also one of uncommon distinction in terms of performance....
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2013
Paul Klee’s ‘taking a line for a walk’ has been cited by many composers, though the result invariably underlines the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2013
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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