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...
Few musicians have had the inclination, opportunity and wherewithal to record as frequently as Stephen Hough. Now 59, he has...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2021
Korean pianist Sonya Bach takes Rachmaninov more by subtlety than by storm. This pays many dividends. She makes the Second...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2021
Poor old Johann Pachelbel. Forever associated with just one work, the (now somewhat hackneyed) Canon in D, he has tended,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2021
Gerhard Hamm (1835-1904) was born in Trier, where he received his earliest musical training at the Cathedral. He was organist...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2021
They may have come about through informal circumstances, but Michael Finnissy’s two sets of Gershwin arrangements are among his most...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2021
Javier Perianes is an artist of richly lyrical gifts, which have stood him in good stead in repertoire such as...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2021
Though Peter Donohoe surely needs no introduction to readers of these pages, it may come as a surprise that this...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2021
If you like your Bach bold and sturdy then the two opening tracks of this new album from the heart...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2021
The word ‘natural’ is such a cliché, yet it constantly comes to mind over the course of Alexandra Papastefanou’s Goldberg...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2021
The booklet note expends ink on the historical justifications for playing Bach’s Cello Suites on the viola da gamba, but...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2021
Rare and revelatory, these archival releases span a century of recording history – from the...
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
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