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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Sibelius Symphony No 5 (original 1915 version); En Saga, Op 9
Every so often a CD appears which, by means of some interpretative insight, changes our view of a piece of...
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JS BACH; BARTÓK; YSAŸE Solo Violin Sonatas
Swiss violinist Georges-Emmanuel Schneider has the technique to give a good account of this demanding programme and his performances have...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 06/2011
CURRAN Solo Works: The 70s
“Solo Works: The ’70s” is not, I admit, a very promising title, evoking as it inevitably does the anaemic vamps...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2011
SCHUMANN Kinderszenen. Kreisleriana
Piano aficionados may previously have encountered the artistry of Uruguayan pianist Alberto Reyes in a splendid and hard-to-find 1995 Connoisseur...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2011
Carleton Etherington
Tewkesbury Abbey’s two organs are unusual in that they are both large, romantically inclined four-manual instruments not originally intended for...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2011
Miloš Karadaglić
I’m sure I said in my last classical guitar review that if I heard another recording of Domeniconi’s Koyunbaba, I’d...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2011
Liuto con forza
The title of this disc may appear oxymoronic but, here, “strength” is of purpose as much as anything else. The...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2011
JL BACH Trauermusik
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was acutely aware of the extremes of fame and obscurity that lay between him (and his...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2011
BERLIOZ La damnation de Faust
Back in 1999 the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam invited Bernard Haitink to give a carte blanche series of concerts involving five...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2011
HANDEL Oreste
All credit to the festival in Besigheim in Germany for unearthing in 2009 a totally unknown opera by Handel and...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2011
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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