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...
Daniel Müller-Schott’s discography already includes many peaks of the cello repertoire, so the addition of the Dvořák Concerto fills a...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 01/2015
It’s been a good few years since I last encountered a brand-new recording of Paul Dukas’s big-hearted and meatily argued...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2015
Composer, pianist and author: Peter Dickinson has enjoyed a long and successful career in all three fields and it is...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2015
Listen blind and you’d never guess this was music by a Frenchman operating in the post-Boulez era, the best clues...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2015
Mark Bebbington is fast becoming the Iris Loveridge de nos jours with his championship of neglected British piano music. There...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2015
We have reached Vol 5 in Guild’s extensive survey devoted to the Swiss composer Fritz Brun (1878-1959). Completed in May...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2015
First impressions are of unclouded Brucknerian vistas, a noble, unforced unfolding with superb playing from the orchestra, well matched tempi...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2015
First off, a grateful nod to the EuroArts production team for abjuring from the bleeding chunk of music which usually...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2015
She may only have been composing in earnest for a decade but Charlotte Bray (b1982) is now at the forefront...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2015
Clemens Romijn’s booklet-essay for this new Budapest recording of Brahms’s Second Symphony talks of the work as a ‘paragon of...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2015
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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