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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LASSUS 'The Alchemist' Vol 1
For lovers of 16th-century music there can be few nuts harder to crack than the Magnificat settings of Lassus. There...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 03/2024
M HAYDN Die Ährenleserin
'Haydn has no talent for musical theatre’, wrote Leopold Mozart about his Salzburg colleague Michael Haydn. Wolfgang Brunner and the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2024
HANDEL Theodora (Cohen)
‘More prescient and pertinent with every performance’ is how Ruth Smith describes Theodora in a typically astute booklet note for...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2024
A BONONCINI Cantate per Contralto con Violini
This recording was made in the monastery of St Florian, near Linz in Austria, where Alois Mühlbacher was a choirboy....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2024
Déjà-rêvé: Dialogues Across Time (Klavierduo Neeb)
Ever since Bartók’s 1937 Sonata, the medium of two pianos and percussion has exerted a compelling fascination on contemporary composers,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2024
VILLA-LOBOS 'Do Brazil' (Wilhem Latchoumia)
The La Dolce Volta label’s high-end production values have always befitted Wilhem Latchoumia’s intelligent musicianship and cultivated pianism. Collectors familiar...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024
Diaries: Schumann (Tiffany Poon)
Hong Kong-born New York-based Tiffany Poon is one of the piano world’s most enterprising vloggers and YouTube denizens, as well...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024
SCHUBERT Piano Works Vol 7 (Vladimir Feltsman)
In Vladimir Feltsman’s burly hands, Schubert’s Impromptus leap out of the drawing room into the opera house. The characteristically swimmy...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024
POULENC Piano Music (Chiara Cipelli)
Poulenc always claimed that the truest measure of his piano-writing was to be found not in the solo works or...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2024
MUSSORGSKY Pictures SCHUMANN Kriesleriana (Robert Neumann)
‘If you play the text as it is printed you cannot hope for the music to make much sense. The...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 03/2024
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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