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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SCHARWENKA Piano Music Vol 1 (Luís Pipa)
You have to hand it to Martin Anderson and his endlessly enterprising Toccata Classics label. Hardly a month passes without...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2020
Martina Filjak: Light and Darkness
Martina Filjak is a Croatian pianist (b1978) who first came to public attention when she won the Gold Medal at...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2020
JANÁCEK Piano Music (Thomas Adès)
One could spend time discussing why a composer of Thomas Adès’s prominence is compelled to record Janáček’s piano music, but...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2020
FRANCK Preludes, Fugues and Chorales (Nikolai Lugansky)
Usually a disc of César Franck’s piano music – especially one that includes the Prelude, Chorale and Fugue – would...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2020
Jan Michiels: Bach-Busoni
Jan Michiels previously recorded four of Busoni’s Bach chorale prelude transcriptions and Busoni’s Fantasia contrappuntistica for a 2010 release on...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2020
JS BACH Toccatas (Masaaki Suzuki)
Bach’s Toccatas seem to present their interpreters thorny issues. With no surviving manuscripts from Bach himself, and with the number...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2020
JS BACH Pour La Luth Ò Cembal (Sean Shibe)
Can you ever speak in elevated, grandiose terms about a classical guitarist? You want to avoid weight, to find instead...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2020
British Violin Sonatas (Little; Howick)
The rich repertoire of the British 20th-century violin sonata, surely one of the richest national repertoires of its era, bears...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 06/2020
Treasures from the New World
‘Treasures from the United States and Brazil’ in truth for this warmly recorded and passionately played new disc. This is...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2020
TELEMANN La Querelleuse
This debut disc is, hands down, some of the best recorded Telemann out there, and I am ready to go...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2020
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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