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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STRAVINSKY Complete Music for Solo Piano (Shevchenko)
The complete Stravinsky solo works are a daunting undertaking and Oxana Shevchenko, who took first prize in the 2010 Scottish...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2018
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 21. 4 Impromptus
Marc-André Hamelin is one of those artists who warrant frequent attention. Now 56 and presumably at the peak of his...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2018
SAXTON Piano Music
To that old chestnut ‘does the composer write for the instrument or the performer?’, the answer is probably a bit...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2018
PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No 4 RAVEL Le tombeau de Couperin (Milstein)
Reviewing debut discs can be hazardous in the light of later developments. The first Gramophone review of Argerich, for instance,...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2018
Argerich and Babyan: Prokofiev for Two
The Romeo and Juliet transcriptions here are no mere scaling-up of the Ten Pieces Prokofiev himself produced for solo piano....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2018
Caspar Vos: Ego
How refreshing to find a pianist choosing Medtner for his debut CD. And this is clearly no casual decision, for...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2018
LISZT Piano Works (Lucille Chung)
Lucille Chung, the Canadian pianist whose previous recordings have included Scriabin, Poulenc and Ligeti, has now turned to Liszt, with...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2018
GULDA Piano Woks (Jones)
Friedrich Gulda’s jazz and pop persona didn’t always sit well with critics and fans who wished he’d simply focus on...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2018
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 5, 6, 7 & 10 (James Brawn)
As his Beethoven sonata cycle progresses, James Brawn’s lean, dry-point style seems more comfortable in its own skin, with less...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2018
JS BACH The Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol 1 – The Young Heir (Alard)
The first instalment of Benjamin Alard’s projected complete keyboard works of JS Bach is entirely auspicious. Subtitled ‘The Young Heir’,...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 06/2018
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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