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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HARRISON Vessels
Interviewed on the Another Timbre website, the forty-something British composer Bryn Harrison struggles manfully to put convincing blue water between...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2014
DEBUSSY Piano Works
In what looks like the continuation of a complete Debussy cycle (Craig Sheppard has already recorded the Préludes), the second...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2014
Javier Perianes plays Chopin and Debussy
One could quite easily listen to this beautifully recorded disc simply as one which alternates short works by Chopin with...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2014
BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Sonatas Vol 2, Nos 11 - 21
Not every track on these three CDs is perfection but they proclaim an artist of exceptional calibre establishing a position...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 02/2014
JS BACH Chorales and Chorale Preludes
Is this the start of a recording age when non-organists are being challenged to hear Bach’s organ music afresh? Robert...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2014
JS BACH Inventions and Sinfonias
Bach himself wrote that his Two- and Three-Part Inventions were meant, among other things, to foster ‘a cantabile style in...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2014
CPE BACH Württemberg Sonatas
Mahan Esfahani’s debut recital recording commemorates the tercentenary of Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (1714 88), whose collection of six sonatas...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2014
Transfigurations
The title of this disc, ‘Transfigurations’, is an umbrella for Les Esprits Animaux’s latest journey into the musical past, although...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 02/2014
JANÁČEK; BARTÓK Sonatas for Violin and Piano
A fascinating, satisfying programme, bringing together three composers whose work is rooted in their local cultures, absorbed to form highly...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2014
Into the Ravine
This is not the first time that works by Michael Berkeley, John McCabe and Adrian Williams have rubbed shoulders together...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2014
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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