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...
Often I wonder whether the unstoppable rise of Morton Feldman would have been possible without the CD. Pieces that run...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015
This highly accomplished group, based in New York, takes its name from the legendary pianist Mieczysław Horszowski (1892-1993). Pianist Rieko...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2015
It makes an ideal coupling to have Brahms’s String Sextets, both charming works, on a single disc. It is striking...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2015
Instruments are carefully balanced, sound is good. But this recording, originally in SACD format, would audibly have been a lot...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2015
The oom pah figuration that launches Bartók’s Suite, Op 4 – which he arranged for two pianos in 1941 from...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015
For their third Steinway & Sons release, the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo dedicate their uncanny ensemble prowess and canny...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2015
A cynic might look at Roberto Alagna’s new disc, ‘My Life is an Opera’, and think, ‘At least he admits...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2015
A different branch of the record industry might have called this recital by the septuagenarian baritone ‘Leo Nucci unplugged’. For...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2015
Glossa’s series investigating the careers of major Italian Baroque singers continues with an examination of the Neapolitan castrato Domenico Gizzi...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2015
Piotr Beczała has built up such good will amid potentially troublesome Metropolitan Opera productions – from the Las Vegas Rigoletto...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2015
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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