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BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 5 & 7
So palpable is the excitement of these live performances that it almost comes as a shock that the applause has...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2013
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1-9
If Haydn spoke his last word on the symphony in 1795, Beethoven’s First five years later is no mere extension...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2013
CPE BACH Keyboard Concertos
It must have been a touch galling for Miklós Spányi, as he prepared to record these four works for Vol...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2013
JS BACH Harpsichord Concertos Nos 1, 4, 6 & 7
The brightness and rightness of the sound is what strikes you immediately about this new recording of four of Bach’s...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2013
JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos
There is much documentary evidence about Bach’s day-to-day dealings but not much of it biographical, no diaries and few reflections...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 01/2013
Alexander Ghindin plays Rachmaninov, Stravinsky & Tchaikovsky
Alexander Ghindin’s novel debut album (Ondine) consisted of Rachmaninov’s First and Fourth Concertos partnered by Ashkenazy and given in their...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2013
SCHUBERT Moments Musicaux. Piano Sonata, D850
You never know what to expect from Valery Afanassiev. One year it’s the most lifeless Beethoven concerto cycle on disc,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2013
RACHMANINOV Solo Piano Recordings Vol 3
For many, Rachmaninov was the greatest of all pianists, and here in Ward Marston’s magnificent transfers he is at last...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2013
Bezuidenhout: Mozart Keyboard Music
The fourth instalment in Kristian Bezuidenhout’s Mozart solo keyboard music cycle proves remarkably consistent in relation to the previous three...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2013
LIPATTI Piano Music
Concertino en style classique has four short movements (17'56" overall) of chic Baroque pastiche, the first movement at times edging...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2013
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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