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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Kotaro Fukuma: Dumka
After a brilliant and refined recording success in Albéniz’s Iberia, Kotaro Fukuma moves to a more wintry clime. In his...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015
Nadia Reisenberg: 110th Anniversary Tribute
Originally on Ivory Classics, this glorious two-CD album is now lavishly reissued to mark Nadia Reisenberg’s 110th anniversary. A voice...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015
STANFORD Organ Works Vol 2
Three tips of the hat for this one: first to Cathedral Music for sponsoring the CD and making available again...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2015
SCHUMANN Carnaval. Davidsbündlertänze. Papillons
This is Boris Giltburg’s first disc since he signed to Naxos. His previous recordings on Orchid, of barnstorming repertoire from...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2015
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition SCHUMANN Fantasie
A number of highly cultivated pianists have been drawn to Mussorgsky’s Pictures over the past few years, among them Leif...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2015
LISZT Piano Sonata
Writing in her personal and engaging notes, Angela Hewitt tells us that Liszt’s B minor Sonata is ‘quite simply one...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015
LISZT 'Venezia e Napoli’
Costantino Catena has performed the complete piano music of Liszt – a gargantuan task – and his present two-CD album...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015
LELY The Harmonics of Real Strings
The austerity of presentation as favoured by the Another Timbre label is doubtless intended to place emphasis wholly on the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2015
HAHN Le Rossignol éperdu
‘Le rossignol éperdu’ is to Hahn what Lieder ohne Worte is to Mendelssohn and Lyric Pieces to Grieg. It is...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2015
FOCCROULLE Works for Historic Organs
From a renowned champion and award-winning interpreter of the north German Baroque repertory, it comes as something of a shock...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2015
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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