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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KORNDORF The Smile of Maud Lewis
Nikolai Korndorf (1947-2001) is one of those names that has haunted the corridors of contemporary music history, so to speak,...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2022
HAYDN String Quartets, Opp 42, 77 & 103
The Takács Quartet come to the end, as it were, of their slow-burn survey of Haydn’s late quartets, following recordings...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2022
CINQUE Sonatas for Three Cellos
How could it have been that, before this treat of a recording landed on my desk, I didn’t know that...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2022
DAVIES Piano Quintet SPAIN-DUNK Piano Quartet WALL Piano Quartet
Henry Walford Davies is a name known to us now for Solemn Melody and small-scale church pieces such as ‘God...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2022
CORELLI Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Continuo
This album is the result of the MA Competition Bruges, at which part of the first prize was the opportunity...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2022
BRIDGE; BRITTEN Works for Viola (Hélène Clément)
It is good nowadays that recordings of Britten are steadily beginning to acknowledge the debt the composer owed to his...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2022
Orchestral Focus: Bruckner Symphonies
‘Revaluation’ and ‘revelation’ are the words that most immediately come to mind in response to this remarkable release in Unitel’s...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2022
Lisa Batiashvili: Secret Love Letters
It is often asserted that today’s violin stars lack the personality of their famous forebears. Then again the projection of...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2022
Alison Balsom: Quiet City
There’s something intensely evocative about the solo trumpet – a plaintive, plangent, melancholic sound that speaks just as eloquently of...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2022
Håkan Hardenberger: French Trumpet Concertos
Håkan Hardenberger and Fabien Gabel, himself a former trumpeter, join forces here for a programme of post-war French music, familiar...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2022
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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