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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CAGE Choral works
There are, I think, two possible approaches to this recording. One is simply to listen through it and let the...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2022
BLACKFORD Mirror of Perfection. Vision of A Garden
Richard Blackford definitely has the knack of writing audience-friendly works with singable lines appealing to amateur and professional performers alike....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2022
BEACH; STANFORD; WOOD 'The Canticle of the Sun'
This splendid album provides a showcase for the talents of 21 singers aged between 18 and 28 brought together for...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2022
Joel von Lerber: Légende
Like a mythical harp-playing bard, Joel von Lerber too is a teller of legends. But such is the Berlin-based Swiss...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2022
Hommage à J. S. B. (Jonian Ilias Kadesha)
An ingenious sequence this, some pieces straying further from a Bachian template than others (Kurtág’s gnomic and texturally varied Signs,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2022
Processional: Organ music by Dom Sebastian Wolff (Richard Lea)
Ad Fontes, perhaps the first record label spawned by a monastery, has produced some gems since its inception in 2019,...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2022
VASKS Piano Works (Reinis Zariņš)
This generous album may not contain all of Vasks’s solo piano music (there are three further works omitted here) but,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2022
TAN DUN Piano Music (Ralph van Raat)
Tan Dun’s numerous large-scale dramatic and multimedia projects have rather overshadowed the instrumental genres in his sizeable output, making this...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2022
SCARLATTI Sonatas (Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy)
Contrasts of mood together with unified relationships of tempo and key signature characterise one the most intelligently programmed and distinctively...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2022
MOZART Piano Sonatas, Vol 5 (Peter Donohoe)
Critical reaction in these pages to Peter Donohoe’s solo Mozart has been mixed. David Threasher enjoyed Vols 1 and 2,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2022
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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