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...
The principal draw here is David Geringas’s reflective and deeply affecting version of the third of Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder, ‘Ich bin...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2014
The 20-year-old French cellist Edgar Moreau, silver medallist at the 2011 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, launches his recording career with...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014
David Popper (1843-1913) was a Bohemian cellist whose work as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher was lauded all over...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2014
Mendelssohn’s music for cello and piano runs the full gamut, from simple lyrical pieces to large-scale Beethovenian sonata structures. This...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2012
Anyone familiar with the repertory played by string quartets at weddings will have heard the clever and idiomatic popular song...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2012
The Wayward Sisters are an edgy new American ensemble specialising in Baroque music. Sisters in spirit maybe – their trusty...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2014
First off, it’s worth saluting this young trio for making its CD debut with music as non-commercial as this. The...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2014
Vijay Iyer is the newly installed Franklin D and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts at Harvard. His background is...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014
As recently as the March issue I was pondering the thought processes involved in choosing a 60-plus-minute recital of Haydn’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2014
The booklet-note by no means downplays the promise of this disc. ‘One will discover with stupefaction an authentic masterpiece,’ it...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014
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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