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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MOZART Così fan tutte
This is a follow-up to the Don Giovanni conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin that I welcomed recently (DG, 12/12). Mojca Erdmann...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2013
BUSONI Doktor Faust
The 1920s and ’30s were not kind to composers – all of Berg, Busoni, Elgar and Puccini were struck down...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2013
BRITTEN Peter Grimes
All who were present at the performances of Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh beach this summer agree it was an unforgettable...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2013
BIZET Le Docteur Miracle
Le Docteur Miracle, Bizet’s second opera, came about as the result of a competition. Six composers from a list of...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2013
Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss vor Husum Vol 24
For their newest venture, Schloss vor Husum dig ever deeper into the byways of piano literature. And if not everything...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2013
Shura Charkassky: Live in Concert, 1971
The tape of this 1971 recital comes from Shura Cherkassky’s own private collection housed at the British Library, but no...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2013
MAHLER Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 arr. 4 hands
The likelihood is that Bruno Walter designed his transcriptions of Mahler’s First and Second Symphonies for public performance. Dynamics, phrasings...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2013
Michael Hersch: The Sudden Pianist
‘The Sudden Pianist’ desperately wants you to believe in the dream that 40-something pianist/composer Michael Hersch is, as the cover...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2013
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Cameos. Valse Suite 'Three-Fours'
Very little of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s piano music has been recorded. If the four works here have previously made it complete...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2013
BUSONI Late Piano Music
Few composers have so determinedly avoided popularity as Busoni. An idealist, he dismissed one musical luminary after another. Schumann and...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2013
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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