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...
If there is only one thing all cellists agree on, it is that the Bach Cello Suites are not starter...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2014
Seventeenth-century Venice witnessed spectacular musical developments, from the polychoral liturgical motets of Gabrieli to the establishment of Europe’s first competing...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2014
These recordings are all of live performances given during Martha Argerich’s Lugano Festival between 2010 and 2013. The Pianos Trio...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 11/2014
The German cellist Anja Lechner, best known to Gramophone readers as a founder member of the Rosamunde Quartet, works frequently...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2014
Spanish Baroque music played on the viola? Why not – especially when the viola is played by someone of the...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2014
Geniality and impeccable craftsmanship go hand in hand when it comes to Saint-Saëns’s piano trios. As Basil Smallman remarked in...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2014
The Lendvai Trio’s previous disc of Röntgen string trios (2/14), featuring Nos 1 4, was one of the great surprises...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2014
You will not need reminding by now that the Strauss and Verdi quartets, a familiar record-company coupling, are the only...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2014
For a long time Mendelssohn’s First Piano Trio has been much more popular than its successor but today it seems...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 11/2014
The German-born Friedrich Kuhlau settled in Copenhagen in his early twenties and enjoyed a modest amount of success there. He...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2014
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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