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; SCHUMANN String Quartets (Leonkoro Quartet)
The Leonkoro (Esperanto: ‘Lionheart’) Quartet make their debut album following a string of competition wins. As I remarked in a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024
MÜLLER-HARTMANN Chamber Works
The ‘Music in Exile’ series led by the Toronto-based ARC Ensemble has turned up several worthwhile discoveries among those Jewish...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2024
MESSIAEN Quatuor pour la fin du temps MURAIL Stalag VIIIa
No 20th-century composition rises more determinedly above earthly trials and tribulations than the quartet for violin, cello, clarinet and piano...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2024
MADERNA Serenata per un satellite. Venetian Journal
Any mid-20th-century composer as upfront and exuberant in his embrace of modernist and avant-garde techniques as Bruno Maderna was bound...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2024
HAYDN Baryton Trios Vol 2
Haydn’s output for the baryton is one of those facets of his artistry that is more known about than it...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024
Handel at Home Vol 2: Total Eclipse
It’s one thing to say that you’re recording a programme of music fit for an 18th-century evening’s domestic music-making. It’s...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2024
BOCCHERINI String Quintets
The Karski Quartet, founded in Belgium in 2018, take their name from Jan Karski, a Second World War resistance fighter,...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 01/2024
BLISS; FERGUSON; HOLLOWAY Octets & Clarinet Quintet
The larger chamber combinations of wind and strings – one thinks of Beethoven’s Septet, Schubert’s Octet and the nonets of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2024
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Vol 2 (Antje Weithaas)
I found much to admire in the first instalment of Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon’s survey of the Beethoven violin...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
BEETHOVEN String Quartets Vol 1 (Doric String Quartet)
The Doric are perhaps the foremost British string quartet at the moment, so their turn to Beethoven in their 25th-anniversary...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024
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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