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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BEETHOVEN Complete Symphonies
In providing us with this vital, keenly played and always engaging new period-instrument Beethoven cycle, Emmanuel Krivine is effectively challenging...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2011
TURINA Complete Trios
Ironically, Turina’s conversion to his native musical roots took place not in Spain but in Paris. Arriving in what was...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 07/2011
JOHNSTON String Quartets Nos 1, 5 & 10
Ben Johnston’s got to be some kind of genius. Anyone who can simultaneously make a string quartet sound like a...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 07/2011
Music for the Queen of Scots
Among the hardest challenges in all music must be to keep over an hour’s worth of recorder quartet-playing alive without...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 07/2011
SCHUMANN Complete Piano Trios
“It would be idle to pretend they are among his best works, for they all date from the years when...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2011
CHAUSSON; DEBUSSY; WIDOR Piano Trios
An enterprising programme here from the Trio Paian. I’ve long had a great affection for Chausson’s only Piano Trio, written...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2011
LISZT Piano Sonata, S178
The pianist, we are told in the booklet biography, is an artist whose “consummate technique enables her to coax unimaginable...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2011
JS BACH Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas
Listening to the opening of the First Sonata’s Adagio, played with little vibrato and flexible interpretation of the ornamental flourishes,...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 07/2011
René Pape sings Wagner
There is a long tradition of singers graduating from the Wagnerian bel canto of Wolfram in Tannhäuser to the more...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2011
VERDI 'Opera Scenes'
If you stumbled upon this live concert recording under the clandestine circumstances of some blog, the insider status would override...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2011
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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