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 have some sympathy for DG. How do you market yet another Schubert Trout Quintet except by emphasising the stars of the...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2017
Two and a half years after his death, McCabe’s music continues to appear on disc (witness also the marvellous recordings of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2017
Following their disc of Dvořák piano trios, which Rob Cowan much enjoyed (9/16), the Busch Trio are joined by viola player Miguel da Silva...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2017
‘The musical genius of France is something like fantasy in sensibility’, said Debussy, and if it’s still hard to swallow...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2017
As David Lang indicates in his warmly opinionated booklet recollections, Tom Johnson (b1939) is best known as an insightful and...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2017
These performances of Brahms’s clarinet sonatas have a feeling of spontaneity that suggests involved, intimate conversation. Shirley Brill and Jonathan Aner...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2017
Period instruments are to the fore here, an anonymous Italian violin from 1690 (the Gaulard bow dates from 1820), and...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2017
The German viola da gambist Johanna Rose has already appeared on a fair few recordings, several of which have been...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2017
Is it a sign of age or are trumpeters getting younger these days? By the time she was signed last...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017
It’s a nice disc that can make evident something you may have known about but never quite appreciated for yourself. In...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2017
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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