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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BARTÓK 'An evening in the village'
When the late, great Buddy Rich was being prepped for heart surgery near the end of his life, his anaesthetist...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2011
Paganini’s Daemon: A Most Enduring Legend
The meaning of the title escapes me; the booklet contends that ‘[Paganini] served his daemon with commitment and dedication’. Both...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2011
MAHLER Symphony No 9 - 1st Mvmt FELDMAN Piano
Edition Laura’s clumsy booklet-note may gorge on hard-sell schlock – ‘the tension [in Mahler’s Ninth Symphony] between the single creative...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2011
LISZT Piano Works
Here, in a magisterial contribution to this celebratory year, is a pianist born for Liszt’s rhetorical grandeur. All these performances,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2011
LISZT Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2
‘Greater than Horowitz, he combines the precision of a metronome with the electrical discharge of a thunderstorm.’ Such was the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2011
IVES Violin Sonatas Nos 1-4
When a star such as Hilary Hahn takes on the Ives violin-and-piano sonatas it has to be special. These four...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2011
CZERNY Piano Sonatas
Pupil, friend and protégé of Beethoven and teacher of Liszt, Czerny composed more than a thousand compositions that have, sadly,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2011
Liaisons: Arias by Cimarosa, Haydn, Mozart and Salieri
What a stimulating assemblage of arias, and in intelligent, standard-setting performances. Soprano Chen Reiss creates a rewarding vocal cross section...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2011
Jauchzet Dem Herr: The Psalms of David in 17th Century Northern Germany
Finely adorned with Rubens’s study of King David with his harp, this release focuses on 17th-century north German psalm-settings for...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2011
FROTTOLE Songs from the courts of Renaissance Italy
The Modena Consort basically comprises four players of Renaissance flute. Not, on the face of it, a very promising ensemble...
Reviewed by David Fallows 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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