Review - QUAD 33/303
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
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ARENSKY Chamber Symphony TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade
Robin Holloway remarked that everything in Tchaikovsky’s work truest to his genius ‘aspires to the condition of ballet’: a perception...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2019
The Mathilde Album (Quatour Arod)
Come for the sex, stay for the music. That would seem to be the implication behind the title of the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2019
GERSHWIN; STRAVINSKY; VARESE Transatlantic
Here’s the recording premiere of a new critical edition of Gershwin’s An American in Paris, and it’s given in two...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2019
FALLA El Sombrero de Tres Picos. El Amor Brujo (Heras-Casado)
El sombrero de tres picos was first performed by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at London’s Alhambra Theatre in the summer of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2019
PURCELL King Arthur (McCreesh)
The Gabrieli Consort & Players have been developing ideas about King Arthur (or The British Worthy) for nearly a quarter...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2019
Preach Sister, Preach
Katherine Jolly is a rather good operatic and recital soprano, teacher – variously at St Louis and Indiana Universities and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2019
Sirius Quartet: Playing on the Edge
On the evidence of their playing on this fascinating disc from Navona, the Sirius Quartet are a fine, adaptable ensemble,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2019
REALE Children's Palace
Paul Reale (b1943 in New Jersey) studied at Columbia in the 1960s with Chou Wen chung (with whom he had...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2019
MEYER Ring Out
In each of Jessica Meyer’s differently configured works from the last five years, knife-edge anticipation opens on to unexpected, often...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2019
KARCHIN Jane Eyre
In 2016 at Hunter College, New York, the Center for Contemporary Opera staged the world premiere of Jane Eyre, in...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2019
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Review - The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach (Edited by E Douglas Bomberger)
‘What emerges is a sense of a musician of true grit and principle, one who fought for what she...
Review - Pieter Wispelwey: The Complete Channel Classics Recordings
Andrew Farach-Colton on the Channel Classics recordings of Pieter Wispelwey
Box-set Round-up: February 2025 (Gabriel Fauré, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schmidt)
Rob Cowan immerses himself in collections devoted to three composers and a quartet
Review - Michael Tilson Thomas box-sets from DG Eloquence and Sony
David Gutman welcomes two collections released to celebrate the conductor’s career
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