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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Joo Yeon Sir: Solitude
The standout performance here was specifically commissioned for this album: Through the Fog by Laura Snowden. It is an eerie...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2022
Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux: Ostinata
In these days of customary moans that all string players sound the same (especially among the younger generation, where teaching...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2022
Yuki Negishi: Enigma
Is there a more audacious way to commence your solo debut recording than by diving into Nikolai Kapustin’s wildly rhapsodic...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022
SCHUMANN Novelletten. Gesänge der Frühe (Martin Helmchen)
The 1860 Bechstein pianoforte featured in the present recording is apparently a model identical to one of Franz Liszt’s preferred...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata D960. Drei Klavierstücke (Ayako Ito)
For more than two decades Ayako Ito has been performing on period pianos, such as the one built by Christopher...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022
REUSNER 'Delitiae testudinis' (William Carter)
I’m not sure how much William Carter knows about necromancy or quantum physics. But the search for meaning through communicating...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2022
PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 1, 3 & 5 (Alexander Melnikov)
Alexander Melnikov’s excellent Prokofiev sonatas series concludes with three of the most modest of the nine. Not that ‘modest’ is...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2022
Zlata Chochieva: Chiaroscuro - Piano Works by Mozart & Scriabin
Zlata Chochieva, whose beautiful sound at the piano is of a silvery, crystalline clarity, has chosen to juxtapose Mozart and...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2022
FUGA Piano Sonatas Nos 1-3
Sandro Fuga (1906 94) came from a northern Italian family of painters and sculptors with – at several removes –...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2022
CHOPIN Ballades. Piano Sonata No 3 (Jae-Hyuck Cho)
In his booklet notes for Chopin’s Ballades and Piano Sonata No 3, Jae-Hyuck Cho speaks of his goal to attain...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022
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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