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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The Early Horn (Ursula Paludan Monberg)
Ursula Paludan Monberg, born in 1982 in Aalborg, Denmark, is already the doyenne of the natural horn, having occupied principal...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020
Complices (Queyras & Tharaud)
You could be forgiven for looking at the title of this latest collaboration between French masters of their art, Jean-Guihen...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2020
Lionel Handy: British Cello Works
Ethel Smyth became the doyenne of British women composers but she was young once, as evidenced by her early Cello...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2020
VASKS Works for Piano Trio (Palladio Trio)
This release includes the sixth (at least) recording of Vasks’s Episodi e Canto perpetuo but it’s still arguably the least...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2020
TELEMANN Recorder Sonatas (Dahl, Hearne, Kjos)
The Norwegian recorder player Caroline Eidsten Dahl has really ticked the boxes with this collection of nine of Telemann’s recorder...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2020
SCHUMANN Piano Trios (Kungsbacka Piano Trio)
It seems a while since we’ve seen the Kungsbacka Trio on disc, most recently with Haydn and Fauré on Naxos...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020
POULENC Wind Music (Ensemble Confoederatio)
There’s something of the Parisian café about Poulenc’s music for woodwinds. The opening of the Sextet is a prime example,...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2020
HELLAWELL Up by the Roots
As a title, Wild Flow might look like another well-meaning contribution to the aesthetics of Extinction Rebellion. However, the 20-minute,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2020
DICKINSON Chamber and Instrumental Works
Arnold Whittall noted, in his Contemporary Composers feature on Peter Dickinson (10/18), that a recording of the Violin Sonata (1961)...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2020
BRAHMS; SCHUMANN Sonatas and Songs (Christian Poltéra)
When both Schumann and Brahms were so enthusiastic about the instrument, cellists can rightly mourn that Schumann didn’t leave more...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner 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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