Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Michel Blavet was the most celebrated French flautist during the first half of the eighteenth century. A younger contemporary of...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1992
Bach’s Goldberg Variations appear to be a calling card for Simone Dinnerstein. Her interpretation is serious-minded and earnest in intent....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 13/2007
It is characteristically enterprising of Etcetera to rescue these Freneh Radio recordings, taken live in 1971, and thus fill gaps...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/1991
The latest CD from the Gabrieli Consort offers a reconstruction of a Requiem Mass as might have been held in...
Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 6/1998
Honegger's five symphonies are all available on CD in well recorded performances from Erato by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1988
Discs of Hugo Wolf's songs have never been candidates for the bestseller list. That is not surprising. They do not...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1992
This is a celebration of two things: the Italian influence on baroque music elsewhere in Europe (as the ‘motivator’ is...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1998
Two bargain Trouts and the sound of the mid-1960s analogue Vanguard version is much preferable to the clear and slightly...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1990
With the possible exception of Guntram (his first opera), the one-act Friedenstag is the least known of Strauss's operas and...
Reviewed in issue 1/1992
At the period when all but one of the recordings on the EMI disc were made, McCorrnack had become one...
Reviewed in issue 9/1989
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
‘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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