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...
Dukas’s single Piano Sonata remains among the most formidable peaks of the repertoire, a defiant assault on what is generally...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2015
Born into an affluent Derbyshire family with strong links to the military and ties stretching all the way back to...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2015
Here once more, on his third Chopin recording for Delphian, David Wilde presents a determined assault on traditional wisdom, on...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2015
The second volume in Mark Bebbington’s welcome and conspicuously classy survey of Bliss’s complete piano output contains one premiere recording...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2015
Given the slight, four-movement sonata that rounds off this fascinating disc, the music of William Hamilton Bird wouldn’t ordinarily merit...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2015
First the positives. In Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, Nick Van Bloss’s supple precision brings out the shifting accents of Var 2’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2015
For his second recording of Debussy’s 12 Etudes (the first was for Arabesque, 2/90), Garrick Ohlsson chooses the iconoclastic blaze...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2015
Presenting Bach’s organ music in fresh pastures is no easy feat but the programming alchemy here is highly compelling. The...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2015
Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations is faithful to the original and presents few radical changes. And so I can...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2015
Rudolf Buchbinder offers Bach-playing of confidence and intelligence, unafraid to ornament and keen to point up the drama of the...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith 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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