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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CORELLI Concerti Grossi Op 6
Corelli’s reputation as one of the presiding geniuses of the early Baroque is extraordinary for being based on such a...
Reviewed in issue 07/2014
BRUCKNER Symphony No 3
Despite Wagner’s approval of ‘the symphony where the trumpet begins the theme’, Bruckner’s Third was something of a problem child,...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2012
L BEDFORD Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale
Thirty-something British composer Luke Bedford (b1978) has a nice line in surrealistic titles. Of the five works on this disc,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2012
BARTÓK Violin Concerto No 2 LIGETI Violin Concerto
Patricia Kopatchinskaja performs these three concertos by composers born in Hungary with her trademark panache and the recorded balance gives...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2012
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 4 & 5
The moment immediately following the arresting horn and trumpet fanfares at the start of the Fourth Symphony reveals a big...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2012
Le boeuf sur le toit
Le boeuf sur le toit is, of course, the name of a ballet by Milhaud, which in turn was adopted...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2012
Leonard Shure in Concert at Jordan Hall
Who remembers Leonard Shure (1910-95)? Certainly his students, who often quaked under his critical savagery. I once attended a masterclass...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2012
Xenakis in het Orgelpark
Now it has been scientifically proved that chaos keeps the world rational, anybody inhabiting that world, who is sensitive to...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 12/2012
ULLMANN Complete Piano Sonatas
Among the numerous composers to have been interred at the Terezín transit camp during the early 1940s, Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944)...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 12/2012
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 16. Wandererfantasie. Impromptus
The first instalment in Paul Lewis’s Schubert series (2/12) got the year off to a wonderful start and he ends...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith 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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