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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DEBUSSY; HAHN 'French Vocal Music'
This appealing album of fin de siècle works – mostly for solo voice and chorus – by Claude Debussy and...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2022
CHILCOTT Circlesong
Circlesong is an extended cantata for upper voices, mixed choir, two pianos and percussion, and is a revision dating from...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2022
JS BACH Cantatas Nos 35 & 169 (Iestyn Davies)
The emotional core of this album is Dieterich Buxtehude’s Klag-Lied. It’s a sublime performance from Arcangelo under Jonathan Cohen, in...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 02/2022
ALBÉNIZ Complete Songs (Adriana Gonzalez)
Momentousness seems prevalent at every turn: the perceptive, passionate notes, the lavish, 112-page booklet and the general dignity of the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2022
Wilhelm Kempff: The Complete Polydor Recordings (1927-1936)
The latest in APR’s valuable series of Wilhelm Kempff reissues brings together all of his non-Beethoven electrical Polydor 78s. Some...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2022
MENDELSSOHN Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol 6 (Howard Shelley)
With this sixth volume we reach the end of Howard Shelley’s journey through Mendelssohn’s solo piano music. And what a...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2022
MENDELSSOHN Songs without Words Vol 1 (Peter Donohoe)
Today it is difficult to imagine the ‘market saturation’ enjoyed by Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words in the 19th century, an...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2022
MEDTNER; RACHMANINOV; TCHAIKOVSKY Works for Piano (Nikolay Medvedev)
This is my first encounter with Nikolay Medvedev, a Russian pianist born in 1986, a graduate of the Gnessin Russian...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2022
LISZT 'Death and Transfiguration' (Kenneth Hamilton)
You can think of this impressive release as a two-disc illustration of its title or simply as a pair of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2022
LANGGAARD; SCRIABIN 'Towards the Flame - Eccentric Piano Works' (Gustav Piekut)
Gustav Piekut doubtless raised eyebrows through making his recorded debut with Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations (Danacord, 2019), and a similarly questing...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2022
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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