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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Franz Halász: Spain
Listening to a Franz Halász album is like biting into a Granny Smith. The playing is always fresh, crisp, juicy...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2021
Hiyoli Togowa: Songs of Solitude
Like most of the rest of the world, viola player Hiyoli Togawa confronted solitude, anxiety and loneliness during the pandemic...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2021
Alexandra Whittingham: My European Journey
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a musician in possession of talent and imagination must be in want of...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2021
Angela Hewitt: Love Songs
You might want to buy this CD for the cover alone. It’s a close-up detail of John Singer Sargent’s wonderful...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2021
Introspection: Solo Piano Sessions (Yannick Nézet-Séguin)
It is worth quoting the conductor-pianist’s thoughts on the genesis of this recording dedicated to his late teacher Anisia Campos...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2021
HAYDN Piano Sonatas Vol 2 (Roman Rabinovich)
Roman Rabinovich follows up his earlier volume of Haydn’s piano sonatas (2/19) with this second instalment, once again responding with...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2021
GRANADOS Goyescas (Viviana Lasaracina)
This was my introduction to Viviana Lasaracina, another outstanding talent from the studio of Benedetto Lupo. Quite frankly, at first...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2021
COLES. HOLST Piano Music (James Willshire)
The close academic and latterly informal relationship between Gustav Holst and Cecil Coles underpins this release of their piano music,...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2021
Kit Armstrong: The Visionaries of Piano Music
In a cogent and provocative essay introducing his recording of works by William Byrd and John Bull, pianist Kit Armstrong...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2021
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Op 109-111 (Sunwook Kim)
A word of warning: don’t start with the booklet. ‘The tessellated masonry [of the Kunstkraftwerk in Leipzig] allows music to...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2021
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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