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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SHOSTAKOVICH; WEINBERG Piano Trios. Songs
The relationship between Shostakovich and Weinberg has often been discussed over recent years, this collection throwing the reciprocal nature of...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2022
SCHUBERT Violin Sonata. Rondo. Fantasie (Viktoria Mullova)
Schubert’s three mature works for violin and piano make an ideal disc-length programme, the Duo Sonata (1817) expanding on the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2022
PAUS 'Cabin Fever'
This enterprising programme of music by Marcus Paus (b1979) is adroitly presented. Disc 1 comprises a set of (to use...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022
MACRAE 'Ursa Minor' Chamber Music
This is an intelligently programmed album of intelligently constructed, sonically well-imagined music by one of Scotland’s most innovative composers, Stuart...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022
LABOR Clarinet Trio. Cello Sonata No. 2
The Bohemian-born musician Josef Labor (1842-1924), blind from the age of three, lived long enough to record. A surviving portion...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2022
CHOPIN; POULENC 'Bleu' Cello Sonatas
This programme was designed, we’re told in the booklet note, to explore the relationship between the colour blue and the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2022
BEETHOVEN String Quartets Op 18 Nos 4-6 (Chiaroscuro Quartet)
A few months back I sat on the jury of a string quartet competition and listened for two days to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2022
'Beethoven the Conquering Hero' Complete Cello Sonatas (Jennifer Kloetzel)
Sample Jennifer Kloetzel’s solo phrase at the start of Beethoven’s Variations on Handel’s ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ and you’ll...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2022
BARGIEL Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2
My first encounter with the music of Woldemar Bargiel (1828 97) was in 1997 and Steven Isserlis’s recording of his...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2022
CPE BACH Sonatas for Flute and Fortepiano (François Lazarevitch)
I think CPE Bach would have got on well with François Lazarevitch, such is the quantity of curiosity and imagination...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner 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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