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...
Belgian composer Philippe Boesmans, just turned 79, was a close associate-cum-student of Henri Pousseur and the composers around him in...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2015
On paper, Vanessa Benelli Mosell’s ‘revolution/evolution’ concept seems provocative enough to draw attention. In reality, the thorny, intricate serial landscapes...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2015
Entitled ‘Light and Shadows’, Tom Poster’s thoughtful recital is arguably more shadows than light. As his own accompanying note explains,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2015
In its concise but slow-feeling harmonic journey, Sibelius’s Intrada (1925) sounds almost like a Schenkerian harmonic plotting of a larger,...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2015
What factors determine your admission into the pantheon of great artists? Talent, of course, but also luck – or the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2015
Gerhard Stäbler came to music through the organ and today remains earthed in its history and base acoustic alchemy: an...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2015
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Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2015
Angular or strident sounds are not a part of Christian Blackshaw’s technique. Instead a horizontally even line and lucid touch...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 08/2015
Here are the two Everests of the organist’s 19th century repertoire with a sonata, placed between them, by the composer...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2015
Josef Hofmann was one of the very greatest pianists of the so-called Golden Age. He was also an inventor (when...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2015
Rare and revelatory, these archival releases span a century of recording history – from the...
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
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