Review - QUAD 33/303
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
No fewer than three recent Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra chiefs have been recording Prokofiev symphonies, in Bergen and São Paulo as...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2015
Here is more seemingly effortless music-making from Mariss Jansons. The interpretations of both pieces being broadly consistent with those he...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2015
John Barbirolli came to Wagner in an age when orchestras were often smaller, pitch lower, and good conductors routinely versed...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2015
An odd suggestion, perhaps, but start by playing the Larghetto of K413. Conductor Michael Alexander Willens sets the scene, the...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2015
Given that it was Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s tonally luxuriant Philadelphia Orchestra that made the first commercial recording of the reconstructed Tenth...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2015
Somewhere in this Somm release is a more characterful one struggling to get out. The soloist, the Greek violinist Efi...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 12/2015
Peter Ruzicka follows his pioneering disc of Enescu’s Fifth Symphony and Isis (10/14) with the earlier of the Romanian’s unfinished...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2015
Henri Dutilleux’s Cello Concerto Tout un monde lointain… (1970) is so intimately wrapped up in his relationship with Mstislav Rostropovich,...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 12/2015
Tasmin Little’s magnificent new recording of the irresistibly tuneful and big-hearted Violin Concerto that Samuel Coleridge-Taylor wrote in 1912 for...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2015
Often overlooked by conductors in the past, Bruckner’s D minor Symphony (Die Nullte) has seen something of a renaissance in...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2015
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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