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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LEKEU Piano Trio
Continuing their penchant for releasing discs of obscure French composers, the Trio Hochelaga have moved on from their relatively speaking...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2012
LALO; MAGNARD ; RAVEL Cello Sontatas
Radutiu and Rundberg make a formidable duo, equally comfortable in the very different environments of these three works. Lalo’s 1856...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2012
KESZLER Catching Net
‘Catching Net’ is a huge dirty bomb of a double album that’s going to detonate right under everyone’s cosy assumptions...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2012
GOEBBELS Stifters Dinge
Heiner Goebbels’s title might be recondite, though as a ‘performative installation’, first staged in Luxembourg in 2007, Stifters Dinge preaches...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2012
DEBUSSY String Quartet, Op 10 RAVEL String Quartet
The La Dolce Volta label sets its sights high. Each disc, it says, ‘is conceived in a limited edition as...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2012
DEBUSSY Chamber Music with Winds
Though Debussy was known to transcribe his own works in piano reductions ranging from Prélude à L’après-midi d’un faune to...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2012
T DAVIES Spine
Tansy Davies came into her own on disc with ‘Troubairitz’ (7/11) and this new release rounds out her output in...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 11/2012
Morava: String Quartets
The absorption of folk tunes into the high-art music of most composers trying to assert their national identity is always...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2012
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 1-10
Although written over a fairly condensed stretch of time (they don’t cover his whole career but rather the prolific, pre-deafness...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2012
JS BACH Organ Trio Sonatas BWV525-530
It seems surprising that so many Baroque chamber groups overlook the potential for transforming the six ‘trio sonatas’ for organ...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood 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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