Review - QUAD 33/303
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
Once, if briefly, known as the French Mozart, Saint-Saëns possessed a legendary facility, claiming he composed music ‘as an apple...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2012
If, like me, you feel that Rachmaninov’s First Sonata doesn’t quite stack up, Nikolai Lugansky’s account may just cause you...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2012
Two new recordings of Pictures at an Exhibition offer differing perspectives of Mussorgsky’s frequently traipsed gallery. Generally Bilin´ska favours fast...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2012
Hindemith is the viola composer par excellence for the 20th century but others took up the mantle, not least in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2012
La Compagnia del Madrigale is a new ensemble initiated by Rossana Bertini (soprano), Giuseppe Maletto (tenor) and Daniele Carnovich (bass),...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2013
This is the 12th volume in Hänssler Classic’s estimable series devoted to Charles Koechlin, the sixth involving Holliger as conductor....
Reviewed in issue 10/2012
A cursory glance at the timings might suggest that Ji∑í Bělohlávek’s wonderfully unforced view of Suk’s towering Asrael has changed...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2012
The double significance of this rather special Má vlast is that it marks both the 200th anniversary of the Prague...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2012
François Servais (1807-66) was an outstanding cellist and, like every virtuoso of his time, composed a large part of his...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2012
If you like your early Schubert lean of tone and impetuous of spirit, you should enjoy the Potsdam Kammerakademie in...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2012
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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