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...
I may be suffering withdrawal symptoms from lack of concert-going, but this enterprising programme would feel right at home in...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2020
I honestly didn’t expect to like the same team’s 2011 ‘Goat Rodeo Sessions’ (a modern bluegrass album blended with elements...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020
The composers represented here in this imaginative and varied programme are some of the 19th century’s finest practitioners of salon...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2020
The seven works on this terrifically played, imaginatively programmed disc cover over 30 years of John Pickard’s career. They are...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020
Reviewing some 30 recordings of Elgar’s Violin Sonata in E minor for a Gramophone Collection in January 2016, it was...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 09/2020
It’s one thing for a group of musicians to produce a complete chamber works cycle whose separate multifarious-force constituents are...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2020
The second of Beethoven’s Op 70 pair is rather the poor relation among the numbered piano trios, its radiance effaced...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2020
Vyacheslav Artyomov turned 80 this year. His reputation may rest significantly on large-scale orchestral works, such as the Requiem and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020
Fazıl Say describes his 2017 Cello Concerto as an artistic response to the terror attacks in Paris and Istanbul, and...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020
Marketing in overdrive and a concept that has misfired, but don’t let that stop you listening to these fresh and...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020
Rare and revelatory, these archival releases span a century of recording history – from the...
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
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