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...
After decades of favouring winds and percussion in his ensemble pieces, Birtwistle turned his attention in the course of the...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 08/2014
How encouraging it is to see Arthur Benjamin’s growing representation on disc. As I hope I made clear in my...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2014
The acknowledged masterpieces among Beethoven’s string trios are the three that form Op 9. Trio Zimmermann have already recorded those...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2014
I got my first taste of the Quartetto di Cremona in a survey of Beethoven chamber music last summer. Now...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2014
Annotator Paul Griffiths imaginatively suggests that rather than calling his ‘clarinet trio’ Contrasts, Bartók might have opted for the more...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2014
That Bach himself routinely arranged his own works and those of others licenses enterprising modern performers to do likewise. Tempesta...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2014
Bach’s ‘Gamba Sonatas’ on viola and accordion? Yes, but given that sometimes the surviving instrumentation of many Bach pieces can...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2014
‘Characters’ is the title of this collection of mostly concertos, implying that there is no clever musicological thread here; each...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2014
One of Weinberg’s most Socialist Realist symphonies is here interestingly coupled with the most experimental of his six concertos. Admittedly,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2014
The Tempest and Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto: an odd coupling but, hey, why not? Tchaikovsky’s emotionally charged symphonic fantasy comes...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2014
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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