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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GERVAIS Grands Motets pour Louis XV
His opera Hypermnestre may be pronounced ‘the best of the Regency period’ by Grove and others, and the composer himself...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2022
BERLIOZ Requiem (Pappano)
Mixed blessings from this latest attempt to represent Berlioz’s ‘Great Mass’ effectively on disc. Pappano – who brought ‘his’ choir...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2022
Víkingur Ólafsson: From Afar
This is one of those albums that should catch you in the right mood and setting. If it doesn’t, then...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2022
VAN DIEREN Complete Music For Piano Solo (Christopher Guild)
That Bernard van Dieren (1887-1936) did not come into his own during the CD era is a little surprising. His...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2022
TELEMANN Fantasias for solo violin (Alina Ibragimova)
Alina Ibragimova brings us an excellent, eloquent interpretation of Telemann’s Fantasias for solo violin. The sound of Henry Wood Hall...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2022
SZYMANOWSKI Piano Works (Krystian Zimerman)
The match-up of a (if not the) leading Polish pianist with a (if not the) leading 20th-century Polish composer is...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2022
SCHUBERT Works for Solo Piano, Vol 6 (Barry Douglas)
Barry Douglas’s traversal of Schubert’s piano music has now reached the sixth instalment with the largest and last of the...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2022
PIPKOV Complete Piano Music, Vol 1 (Dobromir Tsenov)
Lyubomir Pipkov (1904-74) belongs to what is called the ‘Second Generation’ of Bulgarian composers, Pancho Vladigerov undoubtedly being the best...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2022
MOZART Complete Piano Sonatas (Robert Levin)
Robert Levin’s lifetime of immersion in the music of Mozart comes to fruition in this release, the complete piano sonatas,...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2022
Jean-Baptiste Doulcet: Un Monde Fantastique
It’s quite the act of confidence to start off your debut recording with the Gounod/Liszt Faust Waltz. True, Jean-Baptiste Doulcet...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2022
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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