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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PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 5 & 6
Not since the mid-1990s, when Praga paired Serge Baudo in No 5 with an incendiary No 6 from the Leningrad...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2012
The Romantic Piano Concerto 58 - Pixis & Thalberg
Hyperion’s ‘The Romantic Piano Concerto’ celebrates is 58th issue with these concertos including a first recording of Pixis’s Concertino in...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2012
NIELSEN Little Suite Op 1 TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings
This Blu-ray disc is experimental, made with at least half an eye on techniques of recording. Living literally up to...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2012
NIELSEN Symphonies Nos 2 & 3
Notwithstanding the impact of Danish orchestral visits to the UK in the 1950s and of Robert Simpson’s classic book Carl...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2012
MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 9 & 21
The misnamed Jeunehomme Concerto (we now know that Mozart wrote it for a Mlle Jenamy) was one of the outstanding...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2012
LUTOSŁAWSKI Orchestral Works Vol IV
The light and genial Little Suite of 1950 launches this Lutosławski CD, the character of the piece defined by the...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2012
LORD Concerto for Group and Orchestra
This is the now the third recording of the Concerto, following the 1969 premiere release (originally Harvest, subsequently on DVD)...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2012
Alison Balsom - Sound the Trumpet
An interview in the booklet for this disc takes a long time telling us why Alison Balsom has picked up...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2012
DELIUS French Masterworks
This is the fourth issue in the series of discs from Danacord covering Delius’s works with orchestra, respectively Danish, Norwegian...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2012
DEBUSSY Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien - Suite SCHUMANN Symphony No 4
Given that Guido Cantelli’s career was cut tragically short by an air crash in 1956 (he was just 36 when...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2012
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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