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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RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit. Le tombeau de Couperin
Volume 1 in Leonard Slatkin’s Ravel series for Naxos deservedly found favour with my colleague Geoffrey Norris back in December...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2014
PROKOFIEV; STRAVINSKY Violin Concertos
In the last movement of Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto, Patricia Kopatchinskaja takes the composer’s ben marcato seriously, using heavy accentuation...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 01/2014
MOZART Symphonies Nos 36, 39, 40 & 41
With these two volumes, Adam Fischer completes his cycle of Mozart’s symphonies; the complete set is also now available cheaply...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2014
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto. Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra
Tamsin Waley-Cohen speaks in a booklet-note of the coloratura temperament of the solo violin line in Mendelssohn’s D minor Concerto,...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2014
MAHLER Symphony No 4 BRAHMS Symphony No 2 WAGNER Tannhäuser Overture
Rudolf Kempe belonged to that increasingly rare breed of conductors for whom musical mood and content rather than individual temperament...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2014
LUCIER Orchestral Works
Alvin Lucier creates music about the sound of music. In Exploration of the House (2005) he remakes Beethoven’s overture The...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 01/2014
HINDEMITH Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'. Symphonic Metamorphosis
The usual coupling for the Mathis Symphony and Symphonic Metamorphosis is the Nobilissima visione suite, though the Trauermusik and other...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2014
HAYDN Symphonies Nos 99 - 101
Two ‘London’ Symphony recordings arrive emblazoned with icons of the city: Tower Bridge, largely obscured by Thomas Fey, and Parliament’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2014
HAGEN Norwegian Archives. Concerto for Hardanger Fiddle
The Norwegian composer Lars Petter Hagen is preparing to parachute into enemy terrain. It’s October 2011 and To Zeitblom, his...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 01/2014
ENESCU Symphony No 3
Hannu Lintu’s Ondine recording of Enescu’s Second Symphony (10/12) was shortlisted for a Gramophone Award. Some years ago I interviewed...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2014
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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