Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Transcriptions of Tchaikovsky ballet scores seem almost de rigueur for organists on Priory’s recent releases, but I’m not convinced such...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/1997
The welcome rediscovery and consequent reissue of Seefried's recordings continues with this essential disc, a 'must' for anyone who loves...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1994
Following their marvellous debut recording, of late Haydn quartets (2/90), the Mosaiques Quartet now give us the first instalment in...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/1992
Here at last is the answer to the heartfelt prayers of all those correspondents who wrote to this magazine and...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1989
Tomkins is perhaps best known as a later representative of the school of English madrigalists, and one of Byrd’s most...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/1997
I could listen to this forever. When it was new, nearly 15 years ago, I described it as the strongers,...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 7/1986
There was a time in the 19th century when Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words were regularly regarded as the third great...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2008
These 12 discs incorporate an in-built fail-safe against hasty consumption, in that their interpretative ingredients are so rich, varied and...
Reviewed in issue 5/1994
This provides a most welcome sequel to La Gaia Scienza’s splendid account of the E flat Schubert Trio (Winter &...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/1998
As Peter Sellers famously said, ‘if you breathe a word around Charing Cross Road, ten fellas have done it before...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/1999
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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