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...
It is difficult to find a thread to join any free standing works for viola; but that its sound has...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014
Vivaldi’s output of sonatas for two violins and bass consists of the 12 trio sonatas of his Op 1, and...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2014
These works, from either end of their composers’ output, make for an unlikely yet effective pairing. Szymanowski’s Violin Sonata (1909)...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2014
At the heart of this disc are the 12 canons for violin and guitar whimsically titled Schrödinger’s Cat; whimsically, because...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2014
Meredith Monk’s music for both solo piano and piano duo is rooted in her unique singing style, which encompasses a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2014
This is the final volume in the Mandelring Quartet’s complete survey of Mendelssohn’s chamber music for strings, and as its...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014
In the May 2014 issue of Gramophone, I recommended you check out Bernhard Lang’s Monadologie XII – the vocabulary of...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2014
Since the pioneering recording of Howells’s three violin sonatas, Opp 18, 26 and 38, by Paul Barritt and Catherine Edwards...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 09/2014
Gabriel Dupont, who lived to the age of only 36 before succumbing to tuberculosis in 1914, is one of those...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2014
Non-committed beginnings, and a whiff of detachment pervades the first movement of the E minor Cello Sonata. Ian Brown keeps...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 09/2014
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
If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information.