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 piano music on this disc all comes from the past five years, following on a comparable period when Sadie...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2018
After her quite exceptional accounts of both Rachmaninov sonatas (8/14), Xiayin Wang turns her attention to the rather different but...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2018
The Dutch pianist Jeroen van Veen rarely does things by half measures. His nine-disc ‘Minimal Collection’ (Brilliant Classics, 2009) remains...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2018
This fascinating new two-disc set of Debussy, superbly recorded by Ondine, presents the bona fides of the Finnish pianist Paavali...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2018
Don’t believe this recital’s ‘Bach to the Future’ title, for Sabine Weyer’s full-throated and colourful pianism is decidedly ‘old school’....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2018
Simone Leitão’s pianistically orientated Bach interpretations may not be the last word in stylish rectitude, yet they’re inherently musical. Note...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2018
How to get close to the authentic Bach has been both Midori and Begelman’s starting point for tackling this much...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2018
Rarely in the history of the gramophone can so eclectic a mix of works have been recorded to such thrilling...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2018
A Polish concerto performed by a Polish soloist and a Polish orchestra … though not quite on the same disc....
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2018
Given that any new recording of Vivaldi’s six recorder concertos inevitably prompts the question ‘Why?’, this new offering from the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2018
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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