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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Michael Dussek: Romantic Revolution
Michael Dussek can’t be sure whether he’s descended from the 18th-/19th-century Bohemian composer Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812). Nevertheless, the nominative...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2021
DURUFLÉ Complete organ works (Thomas Trotter)
With the 2016 rebuild of the King’s College chapel organ, celebrated on a magnificent recent DVD release from Fugue State...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2021
BRUCH Piano Works (Christof Keymer)
Max Bruch’s music has been popular with string players for the past century and a half but his is not...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2021
BINGHAM Heaven and Earth (Tom Winpenny)
A decade has elapsed since Naxos issued the first CD of Tom Winpenny performing organ music by Judith Bingham. In...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2021
The Piano Music, Chamber Music and Songs of Thomas de Hartmann (Elan Sicroff)
Thomas de Hartmann (1885-1956) was one of musical history’s ‘nearly men’. As Elan Sicroff – the pianist in all three...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2021
Stolen Pearls (Oyster Duo)
Solo practitioners have increased markedly over recent decades but the double bass remains limited as to repertoire. All the more...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2021
La La Hö Hö: Sixteenth-century works for Viol Consort
Recitals focusing on Renaissance viol consorts are pretty thin on the ground. (One thinks back to a series of recordings...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2021
SCHUMANN Complete Piano Trios, Quartet & Quintet (Christophe Gaugué, Trio Wanderer)
The music featured here is a tale of extremes, with the piano trios still relatively under-recorded, while the Quintet and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2021
MOZART Wind Serenades K361 & 375
Amid a vast array of recordings of Mozart’s lavish Gran Partita, performances on 18th-century instruments are still comparatively rare. Which...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2021
MESSIAEN Quartet For the End of Time ROHDE One Wing (Left Coast Chamber Ensemble)
How many, one wonders, in that first audience of the Quartet for the End of Time in Stalag VIII-A on...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2021
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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