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...
Proverbially, the clavichord is held to be the most expressive of all keyboard instruments because the player’s contact with the...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2018
Despite his prolific creative output and long-held prominence as the founder and conductor of important new music ensembles, Theodore Antoniou...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018
‘Metamorphoses’: a curious name for an ensemble devoted to the rather limited repertoire for clarinet, viola and piano, of which...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2018
Remarkably, recorded versions of Weinberg’s Piano Quintet are now up around double figures. Maybe not so remarkably, because this is...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2018
Shostakovich is something of a departure on disc for both the Belcea Quartet and Piotr Anderszewski but a very welcome...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2018
This debut recording by the Trio Vitruvi leaves me frankly perplexed. On the one hand, I’m impressed by these young...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
As the cover billing suggests, Isabelle Faust is very much the guiding light in this period-instrument Octet. Yet her creative...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2018
‘A conversation between two instruments instead of a debate between two virtuosos’ is how Saint-Saëns described La Muse et le...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2018
Parry made no secret of his musical lineage. ‘Zweite Quartette C dur’, wrote the 20-year-old composer on the score of...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2018
The cellist Marcy Rosen was a founding member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet and remained with the ensemble for more...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
Rare and revelatory, these archival releases span a century of recording history – from the...
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
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