Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Naxos has served Grieg’s music well. This disc is the first in a projected series to record all of his...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2004
Antheil, who entitled his autobiography Bad Boy of Music, is best known for his Ballet mecanique which created a sensation...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/2000
Although not as well known as his Op 3 or even Op 4, Vivaldi’s third published set of concertos, the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2000
Those who have come to Finzi by way of works such as the Eclogue‚ the Clarinet Concerto and Dies natalis...
Reviewed in issue 10/2001
I could not resist listening to the Liapunov first of all on this CD. Sergey Liapunov (1859–1924) was a contemporary...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 7/1989
St Paul's Cathedral may seem an odd choice of venue for recording Durufle's organ music: there is that devastating echo...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 1/1991
Volume 7 of Chapelle du Roi’s complete series of Tallis recordings, is a further witness to the composer’s consummate command...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 8/2004
To celebrate the 1937 Exposition International in Paris, the publisher Salabert issued an album of eight piano pieces written for...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1989
Offered here in reverse order of composition, Rachmaninov’s three substantial works for two pianos are given muscular and exuberant performances...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 1/2007
This young German ensemble and family unit seem to have decided that to play Faure with warmth, care and affection...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/1996
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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