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...
In arranging Grieg’s violin and piano sonatas for violin and chamber orchestra, Henning Kraggerud and Bernt Simen Lund (a member...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 07/2013
Hard on the heels of Claus Peter Flor’s exceptional New World with the Malaysian PO (BIS, 2/13) comes this scarcely...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2013
Lesson No 1: always read the small print. Beyond Marcus Bosch’s nicely proportioned account of the Seventh Symphony’s Allegro maestoso...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2013
Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyn´ski (1807-67) was a contemporary of Chopin; both exhibited a precocious talent for the piano and were students...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2013
Listening to Chabrier’s Joyeuse marche of about 1888 you cannot help wondering whether it was from such a piece that...
Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 07/2013
With the final wisps of tuning up and a glimpse of (for some reason) the score of the second flute...
Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 07/2013
Edward Gardner’s operatic background is proving a major selling point for Chandos’s Britten series. Each new release comes as though...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2013
Havergal Brian’s First English Suite (1905-06, here receiving its first professional recording) was his first great public success, its six...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2013
Those who might not count the Triple Concerto among Beethoven’s finest works could well be swayed by this intelligently balanced,...
Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 07/2013
The Channel Classics issue follows a disc of Bach solo concertos from Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque issued in 2010....
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 07/2013
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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