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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BERSA Complete Piano Music, Vol 2 (Goran Filipec)
The works featured on Grand Piano’s second volume of piano music by the prolific and multifaceted Croatian composer Blagoje Bersa...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2020
BARMOTIN Piano Music (Christopher Williams)
Not just his music but even the name Semyon Barmotin (1877-1939) languished for decades in obscurity, Gérald Hugon’s booklet note...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2020
BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 (Trevor Pinnock)
Because Trevor Pinnock’s solo harpsichord forays are few and far between these days, it’s easy to forget just what a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2020
ALKAN Grande Sonate (Mark Viner)
Did you know that for the entire era of 78rpm shellac discs (that’s to say from the late 1890s to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2020
Three American Violin Sonatas (Cho-Liang Lin)
On the evidence of this disc, the violin sonata is alive and kicking in 21st-century America. The form has a...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2020
La bellezza: The Beauty of 17th Century Violin Music
'The Beauty of 17th Century Violin Music’ is Lina Tur Bonet’s subtitle for this new release with her ensemble Musica...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2020
Barricades (Thomas Dunford, Jean Rondeau)
If you’re the sort who likes to know exactly what’s going on, you may well find this album frustrating. What...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2020
SCHUBERT String Quintet & String Trio (Aviv Quartet)
Why did the string trio of violin, viola and cello never really catch on as a genre? Mozart, having written...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2020
SCHUBERT Trout Quintet (Thymos Quartet)
Christoph Eschenbach and the Thymos Quartet had me smiling from the very first bars of Schubert’s Trout Quintet. How affectionately...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2020
Hee-Young Lim: Russian Cello Sonatas
Old-school musicologists may scoff but these exceptionally melodic sonatas are now among the most frequently played of their kind. Not...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2020
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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