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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SIBELIUS Violin Concerto
Hearing these two new versions of the Sibelius Violin Concerto prompts the question: is it the last of the great...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2014
SAINT-SAËNS Complete Works for Violin and Orchestra
Last autumn the Capuçon brothers, Renaud and Gautier, brought out a fine disc of Saint-Saëns’s La Muse et le poète...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2014
MOZART Symphony in D, K385. Posthorn Serenade. March No 1, K335
A Harnoncourt recording will always leave a reviewer with a full page of notes, but let me go straight to...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2014
MOERAN In the Mountain Country. Rhapsodies Nos 1 & 2
This is a welcome addition by the Ulster Orchestra and JoAnn Falletta to the recording of Moeran’s orchestral rhapsodies and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2014
MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 1 & 5
A very distinctive coupling this, stylised in the extreme and with a keen-eared approach to dynamics that is quite unlike...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2014
MAHLER Symphony No 2
Mahler enthusiasts have cause to be grateful to Gilbert Kaplan, the biggest enthusiast of them all, one moreover with the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2014
A Tribute to Erling Blondal Bengtsson Vol 3
This latest Danacord issue is designed as a memorial tribute to the great Danish cellist Erling Blöndahl Bengtsson, who died...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2014
BUSH Symphony No 2. Africa. Fantasia on Soviet Themes
Commissioned to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the founding of the City of Nottingham, the Second of Alan Bush’s four...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2014
BRUCKNER Symphony No 6
I am no sceptic where the filming of concerts is concerned. Given a meticulously prepared shooting script by a director...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2014
BRUCKNER Study Symphony. Symphony No 0
When I opened the CD case for this useful coupling of Bruckner’s two ‘nullified’ symphonies I fully expected to find...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2014
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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