Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
It comes as a mild surprise to have Bach’s gamba sonatas actually played on the instrument for which they were...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 13/1997
The Medici Quartet give strong, firm, decisive performances of both Janacek's quartets, with their excellently blended tone well captured in...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1989
Just when you think you've encountered everything that can go wrong with a car, you find that you haven't; it's...
Reviewed in issue 5/1995
Despite a very finished technique, Ronan O’Hora doesn’t quite measure up to requirements. Pellucid pianism isn’t enough. Temperament is needed...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2010
The theme-and-variation finale of the G major Quartet, No. 5, is usually the movement I look forward to least in...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1996
Irrespective of the rights or wrongs of how many singers should be used in “historically informed” performances of Bach’s cantatas,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 9/2007
The famous Nobel Prizes, awarded since 1900 from the legacy of Alfred Nobel’s will, and perhaps most notable for the...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1997
Writing of these memorable recordings in his accompanying essay New York’s Tim Page refers to Leon Fleisher and George Szell...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/1998
Manuel Ponce (who died nearly half a century ago, in his mid-sixties) has been called the “father of Mexican musical...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1996
The four hymns which open this recital cause one to marvel afresh at this creativity which made everything new and...
Reviewed in issue 4/1997
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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