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...
I imagine I am not alone in having first been introduced to the name and music of Bernhard Henrik Crusell...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2018
Arcangelo Corelli is the (unheard) presiding genius behind this sequel to Rinaldo Alessandrini’s chronological survey of 17th-century Italian string music...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2018
Principal clarinet for both the Aarhus and Danish National Symphony orchestras, Mathias Kjøller (b1985) is a soloist in demand, especially...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2018
Sibelius as proto-minimalist – well, why not? That’s what the conductor Thomas Kemp suggests in his booklet notes, and his...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2018
Two Trouts, one frolicking in the Oder, the other freezing in an Alpine stream in the skiing region around Chamonix....
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2018
‘Sit back and enjoy’ urges the booklet and it really would be a pity not to listen right through. A...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2018
Sixteen years separate Nyman’s String Quartets Nos 4 and 5 – quite a hiatus when you consider that Nos 1...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2018
If ever you needed proof of how utterly tone-deaf were the Soviet Union’s post-war denunciations of musical ‘formalism’, you couldn’t...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2018
Five Haydn piano trios trace a passage from light to darkness – well, almost. The Trio Wanderer open with the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2018
Too little attention has been paid to Reynaldo Hahn’s chamber music of late, so this beautiful CD, marking the start...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2018
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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