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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PROKOFIEV String Quartets. Visions Fugitives (Quatuor Danel)
Quatuor Danel have already produced admirable sets of all the Shostakovich and Weinberg quartets, so I was naturally intrigued to...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 05/2025
MARAIS Voix humaines: Pièces inédites pour flûte
That Marin Marais wrote music specifically for the flute was only suspected until a couple of years ago, when two...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2025
DOVE On the streets and in the sky
On November 20, 2021, the UK-based Sacconi Quartet gave a 20th-birthday concert at London’s Wigmore Hall in which the centrepiece...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2025
Le Temps des lilas: Chausson & Barbara
Once a comparatively rarer-spotted musical beast, Chausson’s bonkers-brilliant Concert for violin, piano and string quartet of 1891, dedicated to Eugène...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2025
BRAHMS Piano Quartets Nos 2 & 3
Notwithstanding the yellow label’s Zimerman-centred promotional branding, this outstanding recording of Brahms’s two later piano quartets (minus the more often-heard...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 05/2025
Philippe Quint: Milestones
Philippe Quint’s distinguished discography mixes standard repertoire with less familiar fare, such as concertos by Corigliano (The Red Violin, 9/08),...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2025
WALLEN Orchestral Works
Playful and serious elements combine and interact in colourful and revealing ways on this album of orchestral compositions by Errollyn...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2025
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto No 2 (Lea Birringer)
There are so many available versions of Sibelius’s evergreen Violin Concerto (1903 05) that evaluating any newcomer against past competition...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2025
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 11 (Noseda)
The Eleventh occupies a curious place in Shostakovich’s symphonic journey. Once deemed to represent a lowering of critical sights, its...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2025
SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 (Baiba Skride)
The commercial discography of Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto has grown exponentially since the 1980s and for today’s younger players the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2025
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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