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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Ondřej Vrabec: British Music for Horn
Peter Seabourne (b1960) studied with Robin Holloway at Cambridge University in the early 1980s, and an entire disc of music...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2020
HAYDN Eight Early Sonatas (Tuija Hakkila)
The music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and his treatise on keyboard-playing were essential to Haydn’s musical education, and one...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2020
CRUMB Metamorphoses, Book I (Marcantonio Barone)
George Crumb’s 1972/73 Makrokosmos Books 1 and 2 made innovative use of amplification and extended piano techniques both inside and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2020
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vols 1-3 (Boris Giltburg)
My introduction to Boris Giltburg was in November 2014, when he appeared with the Baltimore Symphony under Marin Alsop playing...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2020
Alexandre Kantorow: Bartók, Brahms, Liszt
By June 2019 when, at the age of 22, Alexandre Kantorow became the first French pianist to win the Tchaikovsky...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2020
JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Pavel Kolesnikov)
In Lindsay Kemp’s fascinating feature on the Goldbergs in the October issue, one of the subjects he addresses is how...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2020
London Circa 1720: Corelli's Legacy
La Rêveuse bring us a disc of splendid music-making. If the finely phrased strings bursting with vivacity in the opening...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2020
Hope @ Home
Berlin, as James Jolly reported in his streaming feature (8/20), was the first major city to break the musical silence...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2020
NIELSEN Complete Works for Violin Solo and Violin and Piano (Hasse Borup)
The violin was with Nielsen from the beginning. His father was an accomplished amateur, who showed him the way around...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2020
MOZART Piano Quartets K478 & 493 (Dejan Lazić at al)
Dejan Lazić explains how Mozart was the cause of his becoming a musician – upon seeing the film Amadeus, no...
Reviewed by David Threasher 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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