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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SUK A Summer's Tale. Prague
Regarding British performances of music from beyond these shores, Jiří Bělohlávek is to Czech repertoire what John Wilson is to...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW/2012
STRAVINSKY. MARTIN Violin Concertos
Quite an ear-opener. The Stravinsky Violin Concerto is little short of a revelation, lean and keen, with the kind of...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW/2012
SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Valentina Igoshina plays the two Shostakovich piano concertos with technical aplomb, an abundance of colour and spacious phrasing. But the...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW/2012
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concertos
This performance of the E minor Concerto is splendid in many ways. The OAE, with its period instruments, delivers textures...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: AW/2012
MARTINŮ La revue de cuisine. Concerto for Harpsichord and Small Orchestra
The Harpsichord Concerto may be first up in the Holst Sinfonietta’s entertaining programme but for most the chief interest will...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW/2012
MAHLER Symphony No 4
Another relatively lightweight Fourth, recorded live in glorious sound, proves interpretatively a curate’s egg. On the rostrum is Gabriel Feltz,...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW/2012
MACMILLAN Veni, Veni, Emmanuel
It was probably both a blessing and a curse that James MacMillan should have enjoyed such phenomenal success with his...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW/2012
LALO Concerto russe. Piano Concerto
With this second disc, BIS completes its recording of Lalo’s concertante violin works. Here once again is confirmation that Sarasate...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW/2012
MUSSORGSKY A Night on the Bare Mountain RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade
Zdeněk Chalabala’s greatest claim to fame was as an opera conductor – in Prague, Brno and at the Bolshoi –...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW/2012
HOLMBOE Chamber Symphonies
If you do not know them (and how would you? Only No 1 has even been broadcast in the UK...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards 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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