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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DUSSEK Messe Solemnelle
The Solemnal Mass of Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812) appears to have been composed for the name day in 1811 of...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2020
BRITTEN A Ceremony of Carols (Ross)
Hit play on this new recording of Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols and you’ll get a shock. Benjamin Britten may...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2020
BRAHMS Complete Songs Vol 10 (Sophie Rennert)
‘Springing like Minerva fully armed from the head of Jove’ was Robert Schumann’s euphoric verdict when the 20-year-old Brahms visited...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2020
JS BACH Redemption (Anna Prohaska)
This is an album about music and coronavirus. Anna Prohaska, it would seem, had been contemplating a disc of extracts...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2020
David Hill: From the Ground Up
How impoverished the organist’s repertory would be without that humble but ever so effective musical form, the Passacaglia. From the...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2020
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli: Beyond Perfection
In 1992 Dag Freyer and the late Syrthos J Dreher set out to make a film about Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2020
Anthony Romaniuk: Bells
Playlist culture dominates today’s piano scene, with more and more artists favouring thematic or conceptual programmes from short stand-alone pieces...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2020
Magda Tagliaferro: The complete 78-rpm solo and concerto recordings
I heard Magda Tagliaferro only once: she played at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park at the conclusion of the...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2020
TCHAIKOVSKY The Seasons (Boris Bloch)
Here is a curious curate’s egg. The recording is based on the concert Boris Bloch gave on the occasion of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2020
SCHUBERT Works for Solo Piano, Vol 5 (Barry Douglas)
Reviewers often resort to the cliché ‘granitic’ when describing an interpretation that pursues a direct, unswerving course and conveys an...
Reviewed by Jed Distler 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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