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...
Grieg’s 1882/83 Cello Sonata was premiered by the composer accompanying Friedrich Grützmacher (the cellist who made up Boccherini concertos). It...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2015
Now in his mid-thirties, David Gorton is a composer working in the more radical domain of post-war British music. This...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2015
Laura Buruiana and Alexandra Silocea, who both come from Romania, make a formidable duo, playing with immense assurance, verve and...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 05/2015
Trevor Pinnock and the Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble – who have recorded symphonies by Mahler and Bruckner in...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2015
After their splendid Mendelssohn recording (11/14), the Gould Trio turn to a very different programme. The MacMillan works are strongly...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 05/2015
The Ricercar Consort’s recording activities in recent years have focused mainly on sacred music for voices and instruments, so it...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2015
Should it always be a viola da gamba of six or seven gut and metal wound strings, tuned in fourths...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2015
This latest instalment in Regent’s trawl through the organs of English cathedrals takes us to Peterborough. Here an 1894 William...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2015
The four symphonies of the Op 13 set originated in 1872. Nowadays we hear them – 24 movements in all...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2015
In 2005 Jitka Čechová launched what promises to be the most comprehensive Smetana cycle on disc. Ten years later she...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2015
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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