Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Couplings of L'Arlésienne and Carmen Suites have long been a favourite. All four of the above CDs are highly recommendable,...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2008
Sopranos in particular seem to be drawn to the songs of Michel Legrand, with their long, languorous melodies and pretty...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 5/2000
The mother of the title is Emmeline Pankhurst, the two sisters her daughters Christabel and Sylvia. David Bedford’s piece about...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1999
“Glorious” and “sublime” were among the epithets applied to the playing of Dresden’s “Royal Chapel” ensemble when Mahler’s Fourth Symphony...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/2008
It's fascinating to compare this mellifluous, warmly blended account of Dvorak's Second Piano Quintet with the more assertive - and...
Reviewed in issue 12/1999
Having listened to eight versions of the Italian Songbook recently in the course of preparing a book about Lieder on...
Reviewed in issue 2/1986
The choice of items and alternatives here closely follows the old version Vincent Novello edited, and includes a lot of...
Reviewed in issue 5/1985
Hans Werner Henze says that he doesn’t accept commissions any more, but he was clearly eager to break his rule...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/2001
Just in time for Easter, the Choir of Westminster Cathedral presents a full set of Palestrina’s Lamentations for the triduum...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 5/2007
By no means all of Purcell’s mesmeric devotional songs found their way into Henry Playford’s Harmonia Sacra of 1688 and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/1996
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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