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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JS BACH 5 Keyboard Concertos
The inter-reliance of keyboard and orchestra creating something ‘positively embedded’ (beyond mere dialogue) represents both the practical and ideological substance...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2011
Hispania & Japan
In many ways a sequel to ‘Road to the Orient’ (1/08), tracing the travels of St Francis Xavier, this delicately...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2011
Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher
This fascinating film, which has already won the 2009 Berner Film Prize, is the result of Peter Guyer and Norbert...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2011
'Around Jacob van Eyck'
Jacob van Eyck is known only from Der Fluyten Lust-hof, two volumes containing some 140 unaccompanied variation-sets for soprano recorder,...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2011
REICH WTC 9/11. Mallet Quartet. Dance Patterns
It’s not surprising that composers feel drawn to commemorate shattering events taking place in their midst – it goes back...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2011
ONSLOW Complete Piano Trios Volumes 3 & 4
CPO is a great champion of the second-rate and the Anglo-French composer George Onslow, born 14 years after Beethoven and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2011
CARDEW Solo Without Accompaniment FREY Exact Dimension..
Since the dawn of modernism – make that since the dawn of any activity that those involved were minded to...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2011
BRAHMS Viola Sonatas
Though Brahms’s Op 120 Sonatas were composed for clarinet and piano, they belong just as firmly to the viola repertoire....
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2011
BLACKFORD Concerto for Recorder and String Quartet HURD Violin Sonata
This recital brings together a sequence of 10 brief works by three British composers, in music above all designed to...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2011
BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata 1. String Quartet No 15
Late Bach and Beethoven make compelling bedfellows, particularly when linked by the medium of the string quartet; these are live...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2011
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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