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...
The London-born pianist James Rhodes has established a strong presence on YouTube and in other media in recent years. His...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2018
The 11th disc in Florian Uhlig’s 15-volume survey of Schumann’s piano music concentrates on works with connections to ETA Hoffmann,...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 05/2018
Barry Douglas continues his Schubert traversal with the most overtly Beethovenian of Schubert sonatas, the C minor, D958, whose muscular...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2018
Julien Brocal, a young French composer and pianist born in Arles, has studied with Erick Berchot and Rena Shereshevskaya at...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2018
Paul Lewis has finally turned his attention to Haydn. Hurray for that, for it’s a superb fit; it’s also clear...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2018
The charming little Andantino, Franck’s first published organ work dating back to 1858, gets rather overlooked in recordings of his...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2018
With a recent live recording of Dohnányi’s Second Piano Concerto (HD Klassik) also to her name, Russian-born Sofja Gülbadamova here...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 05/2018
Many pianists interpret Debussy’s ‘Danseuses de Delphes’ with steady, stately and often placid calm. Not Menahem Pressler. He takes Debussy’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2018
The eminent French harpsichordist Blandine Verlet has again returned to Couperin, a composer with whom she has been intimately associated...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 05/2018
‘I never learned anything from Haydn’, claimed Beethoven about his erstwhile composition teacher, yet Olivier Cavé’s programme, interspersing sonatas by...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2018
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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