Echoes of Genius: From the Dawn of Electrical Recording to Hidden Violin Treasures
Rare and revelatory, these archival releases span a century of recording history – from the...
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SCHUBERT Impromptus. Piano Pieces. Hüttenbrenner Variations
Although he partnered Paul Lewis on a disc of Schubert’s duets on Hyperion (12/10), it’s taken some time for Steven...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2015
ROGER-DUCASSE Complete Piano Music
Martin Jones’s three-CD album of Roger-Ducasse’s complete piano music is a bewildering stimulation for jaded palates. Bewildering because Roger-Ducasse’s elusive...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2015
RACHMANINOV Compete Preludes
A first listen to 25 year old Lukas Geniušas’s performance of Rachmaninov’s 24 Preludes left me enormously impressed. A second...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2015
PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No 2 SCHUBERT Impromptus
Until now, the Georgian pianist Elisso Bolkvadze has recorded primarily for the Sony Classical Infinity Digital and Cascavelle labels. On...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2015
SCRIABIN Piano Sonata No 3 MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition
Winner of international prizes and invariably a Gramophone Editor’s Choice, Alessio Bax now turns to the sharply opposed worlds of...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2015
GOTTSCHALK A Night in the Tropics
Gottschalk is a composer you have to cherry-pick, and on paper this is an attractively varied programme mixing the sentimental,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2015
CHOPIN 4 Scherzos TCHAIKOVSKY The Seasons
What an oddly balanced programme: four of Chopin’s most familiar masterpieces played in sequence (not composed as a suite and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2015
BRAHMS Solo Piano Works
In the penultimate volume of his Chandos Brahms cycle, Barry Douglas continues to create provocative playlists by liberating short pieces...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2015
BRAHMS Paganini Variations LISZT Mephisto Waltz
With the Liszt Sonata and now Brahms’s Paganini Variations, to say nothing of the Saint-Saëns-Liszt-Horowitz Danse macabre coupling, Alexander Gavrylyuk...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2015
BEETHOVEN 32 Variations. Piano Sonatas Nos 19 & 20
This disc features a Christopher Clarke instrument (modelled on a Fritz piano from Vienna, c1818), whose well-regulated action and varied...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2015
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Myra Hess: a national treasure revisited in Jessica Duchen’s biography
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Mahler in miniature: Stephen Downes delivers a witty, wry portrait for the Critical Lives series
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Michel Béroff at 75: Erato's monumental box-set celebrates a brilliant and versatile pianist
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
Fell Audio debuts with British-made hi-fi duo offering style, substance, and value
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
New box-sets: Beethoven from Barenboim, Arrau and Klemperer, plus Irmgard Seefried Edition
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
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