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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SHOSTAKOVICH; BRITTEN; PROKOFIEV Cello Sonatas
Cellist Jamie Walton and pianist Daniel Grimwood make an outstanding duo, as two earlier CDs for Signum have already demonstrated....
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 05/2012
BRAHMS; LISZT; SCHOENBERG Works for Piano Trio
This disc holds compressed time: that unrepeatable period of a decade or two in German culture in which the good...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2012
BLISS; BRITTEN String Quartets
Founded in 2003, the Barbirolli Quartet brings together four string players trained at the Royal Northern College of Music in...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 05/2012
BERKELEY Chamber Works for Wind, Strings & Piano
Two world-premiere recordings top and tail this useful programme of chamber works by Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-89). The Trio for...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2012
BENDA Violin Sonatas
The Bohemian composer Franz Benda (1709-86) started his musical career as a boy soprano in the Benedictine church of St...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2012
BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 7
As Beethoven did in the Fourth Piano Concerto four years earlier, so he does in Op 97; the pianist sets...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2012
JS BACH Guitar Concertos
Xuefei Yang becomes the latest guitarist to adapt the music of Bach for her instrument. The composer’s own lute transcriptions...
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JC BACH A Music Party
These unfailingly excellent performances of attractive chamber works provide plenty of evidence to explain why the youngest child of the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2012
ACHRON Complete Suites for Violin & Piano
Shaham and Erez recorded most of the short pieces in this programme in 1996; they were then issued on a...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 05/2012
Renée Fleming: Poèmes
The outstanding item in this French collection is the first recording of Dutilleux’s Le temps l’horloge. The short cycle of...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 06/2012
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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