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...
Reviewing a recent CD containing among other things a suite by Christoph Graupner for recorder and strings (Dacapo, A/13), I...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2014
The two bits of bread and butter in this musical sandwich are Saint-Saëns’s Second Piano Concerto and Franck’s Variations symphoniques....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2014
First, a minor glitch: it occurs at 2'52" into the D major Slavonic Dance (Op 46 No 6), where a...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2014
Gli Incogniti and Amandine Beyer have made significant ripples on the Baroque orchestral scene with their flamboyant and refreshing style,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2014
‘A composition woven out of nerve fibres’ is how Busoni once described his Nocturne symphonique (1912 13) and, with its...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2014
Plenty to get excited about here, first and foremost the sheer energy of Skrowaczewski’s performance, or most of it; the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2014
This could have been so cheesy, couldn’t it? Pergolesi-based improvisations by a jazz singer, a jazz pianist, a classically trained...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2014
The origin of term ‘madrigal’ is a matter of debate: it may be linked to the notion of the mother-tongue,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2014
Like Edith Piaf,...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 02/2014
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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