Review - QUAD 33/303
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
The German mezzo Michaela Schuster is best known as an operatic animal, with a repertoire that includes big-hitting Wagner and...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2015
The traversal of an idiosyncratic corner of 16th-century polyphony comes to an end with this double-CD, which focuses on the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2015
Joyce DiDonato concerts are never demure events. The question is how the addition of Antonio Pappano – and the overall...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2015
Ever adventurous in their choice of programmes, for their sixth CD Ensemble Leones have chosen German medieval sacred music, mainly...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 09/2015
This programme was inspired by viol player Caroline Howald’s admiration for ‘Mein Freund ist mein und ich bin sein’ by...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2015
In part a homage to the fin-de-siècle salon, this is a disc of mélodies with ensemble accompaniment, and as such...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2015
Recorded some eight months after Ian Bostridge’s first Schubert volume on Wigmore Hall Live (8/14), this disc similarly mixes better-known...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2015
In 2011 pianist Mitsuko Uchida led a suitably moonstruck performance of Schoenberg’s 1912 monodrama Pierrot lunaire at the Salzburg Festival....
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2015
Rore’s discography hardly reflects his stature, so the chance to hear one of his Masses in multiple interpretations is a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2015
The previous volumes in this series have concentrated on Poulenc’s songs with piano. Here, though, the musical horizons broaden out...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2015
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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