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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HINDEMITH Kammermusik (Eschenbach)
Unlike the three concertos on the first volume of Eschenbach’s survey (7/20), those on its successor, Nos 4-7, tend to...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2020
HAYDN Symphony No 100. Nelson Mass (Christophers)
Harry Christophers and the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston present a neatly turned-out Military Symphony, closer to the urbanity...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2020
DELIBES Balet Suites (Järvi)
‘Swan Lake is mere rubbish in comparison with Sylvia’, Tchaikovsky wrote to Nadezhda von Meck in 1877, having just heard...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2020
CLYNE Mythologies
Mark Pullinger wrote movingly of Anna Clyne’s cello concerto DANCE (2019) in the August issue, concluding that it ‘should make...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2020
BEN-HAIM Music of Israel (Welber)
It’s good to see the music of the Munich-born Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim receiving increasing attention from record companies. The...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2020
Searching for Ludwig: Beethoven, Sollima & Ferré
Unlike Leonard Bernstein’s famous recording of these same two late Beethoven quartets with the strings of the Vienna Philharmonic (DG,...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2020
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 3. Triple Concerto (Martin Helmchen)
Unless a Choral Fantasy is waiting in the wings, this new disc rounds out Martin Helmchen’s collaboration with Andrew Manze...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2020
AMMANN; BARTOK; RAVEL Piano Concertos (Andreas Haefliger)
To title a piece The Piano Concerto with the definite article up front may seem a tad self-aggrandising. Yet Dieter...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2020
HAMMERSCHMIDT 'Ach Jesus stirbt'
Compared with the famous triumvirate of his contemporaries, Schütz, Schein and Scheidt (or even Michael Praetorius), Andreas Hammerschmidt (c1611-1675) is...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2020
Isabelle Demers: The Chicago Recital
Isabelle Demers is a Quebec-born organist who revels in the music she plays and the sounds she can produce by...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2020
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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