Echoes of Genius: From the Dawn of Electrical Recording to Hidden Violin Treasures
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RUBINSTEIN Piano Sonatas 1 & 2 (Han Chen)
As far as I know, this is only the third recording of Rubinstein’s E minor Sonata and the second of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2020
GRANADOS Goyescas (Jean-Philippe Collard)
Given that Jean-Philippe Collard revels in music containing great harmonic subtlety (Fauré) and textual intricacy (Rachmaninov), it’s not surprising how...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020
FEINBERG Piano Sonatas Nos 1-6 (Marc-André Hamelin)
What happened to the great Russian composer-pianist tradition in the decades after the death of Scriabin and the emigration of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2020
Víkingur Ólafsson: Debussy; Rameau
After reviewing Vikingur Ólafsson’s disc of Bach (11/18) I was eager to hear what he’d do next and this certainly...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2020
CLEMENTI Piano Sonatas (Giacomo Scinardo; Soyeon Kate Lee)
Muzio Clementi’s 250th birthday was celebrated in 2002 with scholarly conferences in Perugia and Rome. Two years earlier, Ut Orpheus,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2020
BUXTEHUDE The Stradal Transcriptions (Meilin Ai)
Toccata Classics continues its mission on behalf of the piano transcriptions of August Stradal (1860-1930), covering compositions by Bach, Wagner,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020
BRAHMS Fantasien. Intermezzi. Klavierstücke (Cartier-Bresson)
The French pianist Hortense Cartier-Bresson, who studied with Yvonne Loriod and György Sebők, now teaches at the Paris Conservatoire and...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2020
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 30 - 32 (Maurizio Pollini)
For pianists and music lovers who came of age in the 1970s and ’80s, Maurizio Pollini’s Beethoven recordings were considered...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Opp 106 & 111 (Filiippo Gorini)
Two years ago it was the Diabelli Variations; now 24-year-old Filippo Gorini is scaling scarcely less Himalayan peaks. And I...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2020
Richard Strauss and the Viennese Trumpet
In James Blish’s story A Work of Art, scientists in an art-starved future use the music of Richard Strauss to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby 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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