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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WEINBERG Sonatas For Violin Solo (Gidon Kremer)
The unaccompanied sonatas for strings (four each for viola and cello, three for violin and one for double bass) might...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2022
TABAKOVA; VLADIGEROV 'Slavic Roots' (Marina Staneva)
The young Bulgarian pianist Marina Staneva’s solo CD debut offers two major-length works by Pancho Vladigerov, whose ingenuous Romantic keyboard...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2022
RAVEL The complete music for solo piano, Vol 1 (Oleg Marshev)
The old adage ‘let sleeping dogs lie’ applies to Maurice Ravel’s La parade, an over-extended music-hall pastiche that never should...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2022
RACHMANINOV Piano Works (Jean-Paul Gasparian)
This is the first appearance in these pages of the French pianist Jean-Paul Gasparian (b1995, Paris) but I suspect he...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2022
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 14, 17 & 23 (Nikolai Lugansky)
This is the second volume of Nikolai Lugansky’s Beethoven to have come my way and the ruggedness that coloured his...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2022
JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, Vol 2 (Linus Roth)
While not wishing to brand this comely trio of performances a ‘throwback’, it does bring in its train a key...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2022
Psappha: Commissions
It hardly seems three decades since Tim Williams founded the Manchester-based Psappha, its track record in terms of commissioning or...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2022
Coco: Origins
Those with eyes and ears fixed on the BBC Young Musician competition will know that in 2020 the strings final...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2022
Fractales
Ensemble Fractales are a specialist new music chamber group comprising flautist Renata Kambarova, clarinettist Benjamin Maneyrol, violinist (and occasional viola...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022
English Music for Viola and Piano (Sarah-Jane Bradley)
The viola has been the source of inspiration behind a good deal of chamber music written by 20th-century British composers...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 05/2022
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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