Review - QUAD 33/303
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
The unusual trajectory of Mélodie Zhao’s recording career began with a set of Chopin Etudes, recorded when she was 13,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2016
Marrying Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with Les noces makes for a bizarre mismatch. Teodor Currentzis and his Perm orchestra MusicAeterna are...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2016
This disc is part showcase, part demonstration of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana’s own links with Richard Strauss. Five bonus...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2016
Regional French orchestras might have as much pedigree recording Sibelius as the Finns do making wine, but there aren’t any...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2016
Philippe Herreweghe’s previous excursions on disc with Schubert’s symphonies were the Ninth in 2011 and the Sixth and Eighth in...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2016
Born in 1950, Enjott Schneider taught for many years at Munich’s University of Music and Performing Arts. His sizeable output...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2016
Some of Saint-Saëns’s finest works are for the violin. One violinist in particular was the inspiration and beneficiary of these:...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2016
The first thing to say (because it is the first thing you will notice when you play this disc) is...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2016
This latest addition to Southwest Radio’s survey of Wolfgang Rihm’s orchestral music offers the chance to compare Two Other Movements,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2016
This beautifully programmed disc is in many ways let down by the work that to all intents and purposes forms...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2016
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
‘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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