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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BERLIOZ Grande Messe des Morts
This disc is taken from the original master tapes of what is now West German Radio. If ever there was...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2012
The Silver Violin
This new release from Nicola Benedetti offers a programme inspired by film music with Korngold’s Violin Concerto as the centrepiece,...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 11/2012
Perspectives
Norway’s only full-time professional chamber orchestra is heard to advantage on this disc largely devoted to 20th-century classics for strings....
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 11/2012
Le Paris des Romantiques
The premise of this fascinating disc is that all three composers knew, worked with and respected one another in the...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2012
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 2
Pletnev has always been respectful of the classicism, the formal ‘correctness’, so often downplayed in Tchaikovsky performances – but here,...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2012
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No 1
After two hearings, this disc provoked two contradictory responses. My initial notes concluded that Trifonov was blessed with fabulous fingers...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2012
STANDFORD First Symphony 'The Seasons'. Cello Concerto
Yorkshire-born Patric Standford (b1939) was a pupil of Edmund Rubbra and Norman Del Mar at the Guildhall School of Music,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2012
SPOHR 4 Concertos for Clarinet
Louis Spohr made no concessions to technical limitations in the concertos he wrote for clarinettist Simon Hermstedt, who didn’t ask...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2012
SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 5 & 6
Paavo Berglund set down three Sibelius symphony cycles (with the Bournemouth Symphony and Helsinki Philharmonic orchestras, both for EMI, and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2012
The Romantic Violin Concerto, Vol 13 – Schumann
Anthony Marwood has an enviable reputation as a Schumann-player (among those of us who envy such things, at least). His...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2012
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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