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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Joyce DiDonato: Stella di Napoli
After her programme of Baroque arias in ‘Drama Queens’ (Virgin, 1/13), Joyce DiDonato moves on a century to treat us...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2014
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 14 & 29
Often known as ‘the Mount Everest of the keyboard’, Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata poses every conceivable problem, musically and technically (though...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2014
JS BACH Mass in B minor
With major Bach vocal works now appearing on Hyperion, notably under Stephen Layton, the absence of an à la mode...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2014
JS BACH Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Bach on the violin is perhaps the only remaining enclave in the composer’s oeuvre where partisan views on equipment and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2014
CHOPIN Preludes
It says a lot for this disc that, when Gramophone’s Editor chose it as his Recording of the Month and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2014
Murray Perahia plays Chopin
A self-recommending six-disc set from Sony Classical is ‘Murray Perahia plays Chopin’ which includes the Gramophone Award-winning disc of the Etudes. As...
Reviewed by James Jolly in issue: 3/2011
SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas
How does he do it? We all know Daniel Barenboim eats, sleeps and dreams music, but somehow he has found...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2014
Sacred Love
Pushkin, Blok, Gogol, Pasternak: some fine Russian writers come together here. Their elusive and allusive verses both invite and defy...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2014
BAX Four Orchestral Pieces
Composed in Rathgar, Dublin, and powerfully evocative of the County Wicklow landscape, Bax’s Four Orchestral Pieces were first heard in...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2014
A Tribute To Penderecki
As Poland’s most famous living composer, Penderecki might expect to have been feted on his 80th birthday, as indeed it...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2014
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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