Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
In many ways a commendable disc. Andrew Fuller and Michael Dussek's performances are accomplished, committed and exceptionally well prepared, and...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 3/2000
The title’s a play on both Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights and Jacob van Eyck’s recorder collection The Flute’s Garden...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 9/2008
''The overall shape of Pan is difficult to describe'', as Vladimir Lebl put it in his short biography of Novak...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1985
Though it remains true that Magnard is little known even in his native France, let alone here the present issue...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1988
There’s so little Weber about on DVD, still less that’s worthwhile, that any Euryanthe at all is a welcome surprise,...
Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 8/2005
The Vasari Singers under their founder, Jeremy Backhouse, here demonstrate their versatility in a wide-ranging collection of anthems designed for...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2011
Seeing the music of Reich and Glass paired – particularly on Glass’s own label – is heartening for those of...
Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 9/2006
Paul Merkelo is principal trumpet of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and a player of unusual lyrical gifts. This randomly-presented programme...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2004
The scherzo of Havergal Brian’s Second Symphony is a battle-scene of such brilliant and fantastic invention that if Berlioz himself...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1998
It would be an impossible task to devise a gala concert which would fully represent the achievement of EMI over...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1997
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
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‘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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