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 French have long been in an intimate relationship with the flute. Think of that siren call languorously opening Debussy’s...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2024
In this fourth instalment of Weinberg string quartets, the Arcadia Quartet tellingly juxtapose one of his greatest works with two...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2024
His output may be dominated by large-scale works for piano but Kaikhosru Sorabji wrote vocal and chamber pieces of relative...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2024
When reviewing Kilian Herold and the Armida Quartet’s recording of Johanna Senfter’s fine Clarinet Quintet, Richard Whitehouse hoped ‘that more...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024
Adaptations of Schubert range from faithful transcriptions to more intricate amplifications and radical realisations such as Berio’s Rendering. Since the...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 08/2024
International music competitions gifting a recording as part of their first-prize package may be increasingly common but few competition-label partnerships...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2024
According to cellist Dóra Kokas, ‘Hypnosis’ (this programme’s title) refers to the hypnotherapy Rachmaninov underwent in order to overcome a...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2024
David Pohle’s name is probably not familiar to many. Though his music appears on a handful of recorded anthologies of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2024
Of the many recordings now available of Elgar’s Violin Sonata (which I surveyed in a Gramophone Collection in January 2016),...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2024
The legacy of 14 quartets by Conrado del Campo (1878-1953) has so far not won the attention of Naxos’s compendious...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2024
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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