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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SCARLATTI Keyboard Sonatas
In the main, Igor Kamenz’s Scarlatti recital serves up unsatisfying interpretations of favourite pieces. Notice the purposeless elongations at phrase...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2014
PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 5 & 6.
Though the track list has it as Op 38, the Fifth Sonata should really be listed as Op 135, the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2014
MOZART Piano Sonatas Nos 3-5, 10 & 13
No angularities or vertically oriented sounds here. Instead, the capacity of the modern piano for a horizontally sustained line is...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2014
MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words
Perhaps more than most of Mendelssohn’s output, the Songs Without Words have contributed to the saccharine image that history has...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2014
Bianconi plays Chopin
Philippe Bianconi has not enjoyed an exactly high-profile career since winning the silver medal at the Seventh Van Cliburn International...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2014
BRIAN Complete Piano Music
Although this is the second CD issue devoted to Havergal Brian’s complete piano music, it was the first to be...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2014
BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 2. Variations. 3 Intermezzi
Brahms’s F sharp minor Sonata is at the heart of Jonathan Plowright’s second volume of the composer’s complete piano works....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2014
BEETHOVEN; SCRIABIN; ARAPOV Piano Sonatas
The microphone has been Sokolov’s declared enemy for some while, in the concert hall as well as the studio, so...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/2014
JS BACH Cello Suites
Viola de Hoog was the cellist of the Schoenberg Quartet. However, alongside her affinity with the music of the Second...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 12/2014
Lisa Houben: Vieni, amor mio!
This CD comprises Italian love songs by composers better known for their operas. Surprisingly, they include few that are well-known,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2014
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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