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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BLACKFORD Pietà (Amy Dickson)
The Stabat mater – Mary’s grief upon seeing her son crucified on the Cross – has received more than its...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2020
BERNARDI Lux Aeterna. Ein Salzburger Requiem
Stefano Bernardi (c1577-1637) held eminent musical posts in his native Verona but for about a decade he was the first...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2020
BEETHOVEN Songs (Matthias Goerne)
With so many detractors, Beethoven Lieder are bound to acquire revisionist defenders, the latest being Matthias Goerne, whose status among...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2020
JS BACH St John Passion (Rademann)
Gaechinger Cantorey, the choir and orchestra of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, opt for the 1749 revision of the St John...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2020
Virtuoso Piano Transcriptions (Alessandro Taverna)
My colleague Harriet Smith wrote a mixed yet accurate and fair-minded review for Alessandro Taverna’s previous live CD recorded at...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020
WIDOR Organ Symphonies Vol 1 – Nos 1 & 2 (Wolfgang Rübsam)
The booklet with this first disc in the Naxos cycle of Widor organ symphonies informs us that the restored 1928...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2020
WHITE Piano Sonatas Vol 2 (Jonathan Powell)
The sonatas of John White – 180 and counting – rank among the largest and most varied corpuses of piano...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2020
SOR The 19th-Century Guitar (Gianluigi Giglio)
The salon and pedagogical miniatures of the 19th-century guitarist-composers Fernando Sor, Mauro Giuliani, Dionisio Aguado, Matteo Carcassi et al sound...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2020
SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas, Vols 3 & 4 (Llŷr Williams)
Michelle Assay’s harsh yet accurate observations concerning Llŷr Williams’s initial Schubert volumes (2/20) sometimes mirror my mixed responses to the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020
SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas D958 & D894 (Adam Laloum)
In my version of Utopia, all professional pianists would start their day by playing through at least one of Schubert’s...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2020
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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