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...
To be so moved by so little is to show in perfectly appropriate terms the very nature of these pieces,...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2013
A neat programme, this. Like a football tournament, ‘The London Flute’ sees an old rivalry – French music versus Italian...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2013
Hugo Wolf began his D minor Quartet in 1878; it was to occupy him for six years. Aged 18, he...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 09/2013
This near-complete set of Weinberg’s violin-and-piano works fills a significant gap in his discography (I say near-complete, because the two...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2013
In two quite different ways this is something of an assemblage. To an extent that was not untypical of the...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 09/2013
Period-instrument versions of Schubert’s piano trios are still relatively thin on the ground, so any new one is worth careful...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2013
These performances exhibit that feeling of spontaneous enjoyment which animated Ibragimova and Tiberghien’s live Beethoven set from the Wigmore Hall...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 09/2013
I had more than a few misgivings about the recent version of Souvenir de Florence from Sarah Nemtanu and friends....
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2013
While this is a disc of fairly central repertoire, it is also one of uncommon distinction in terms of performance....
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2013
Paul Klee’s ‘taking a line for a walk’ has been cited by many composers, though the result invariably underlines the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2013
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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