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...
Although all of these composers were active in Terezín (Theresienstadt), only the works by Klein and Ullmann were written there,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2013
Particularly in the sparely scored works of his so-called neo-classical period, Stravinsky’s music requires very exact balance, something scrupulously caught...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 04/2013
There’s something about Schumann’s piano trios. The music really gets under your skin, more so than many of his works:...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2013
release This new coupling by Bruno Monteiro and João Paulo Santos of Strauss’s Violin Sonata with the D minor work...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 04/2013
This disc abounds in the kind of full-on playing and lively engagement with the music that we’ve come to expect...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2013
Given the paucity of modern repertoire for piano trio, it is no surprise that Martinů’s four works for this combination...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2013
After issuing a series of fine recordings of French music in the 1980s and early ’90s, Trio Sonnerie make a...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2013
Playing Dvořák well seems to be par for the course these days, whereas playing him beautifully isn’t. The young Cypress...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2013
The memory of hearing Jordi Savall’s 1975 recording of Couperin’s two unequalled Suites for bass viols has never left me,...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2013
Considering how important the Corelli Op 5 duo sonatas are in the history of violin-playing, performances and recordings of these...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2013
Rare and revelatory, these archival releases span a century of recording history – from the...
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
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