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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GÁL; KRASA Complete String Trios
This disc might be more accurately titled ‘Complete Music for String Trio’, since only one fully fledged string trio is...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2012
FUJIKURA Secret Forest
NMC’s Debut Discs series continues with a timely profile of Dai Fujikura – Osaka-born and London-based, whose music is an...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 12/2012
ENESCU Violin Music
As a composer-violinist Enescu didn’t provide a large part of his own concert repertoire, as his 19th-century predecessors had done....
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2012
DVOŘÁK String Quartet No 13. Cypresses. Waltzes
While not quite matching the dynamism and idiomatic accents of the Pavel Haas Quartet, the Cecilia String Quartet offer a...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2012
DELIUS; GRIEG Complete Works for Cello & Piano
Raphael Wallfisch has recorded Delius’s Cello Sonata before on Chandos and, if you prefer major couplings such as Bax, Bridge,...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2012
DEBUSSY; FAURÉ; BRIDGE; BRITTEN: Works for Cello and Piano
Two young British artists, both winners of international prizes, the cellist Philip Higham and the pianist Simon Lane, form an...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2012
BRAHMS Quintets Opp 34 & 115
One of the many notable things about the Tokyo Quartet is that they play the ‘Paganini’ quartet of instruments by...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 12/2012
Music from the Eton Choirbook
It is great to have a new recording from the Eton Choirbook, that astonishing collection of English church music from...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: AW/2012
Mezzo Moon: Lieder and Songs
Pia Heise has an attractive voice and sings with appealing candour. Roger Vignoles is an attentive, vastly experienced accompanist. Yet...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW/2012
The Legacy of Mahler
Much is made of Virpi Räisänen’s dual career path. Though an accomplished violinist, she is now making her name as...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW/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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