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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Marianne Crebassa: Secrets
Marianne Crebassa’s French song album surveys the fin de siècle mélodie from Duparc to late Fauré, placing the emphasis on...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2017
Sonatas and Nocturnes: 19th Century Gems for Bassoon and Piano
Michel Bettez has been principal bassoon for more than 30 years of Montreal’s beloved Orchestre Métropolitain, currently under the artistic direction...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2017
VINES Loose, Wet, Perforated
Commissioned by the Boston-based experimental opera company Guerilla Opera and premiered in 2011, Nicholas Vines’s highly resourceful pocket opera (four...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2017
TROTTA For a Breath of Ecstasy
The American composer Michael John Trotta has concentrated on choral music for most of his career. The newest disc devoted...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2017
MAKAN Letting Time Circle Through Us
Keeril Makan’s Letting Time Circle Through Us (2013) is a sextet in one large, euphonious, unbroken span. Written for the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2017
DVOŘÁK String Quartet No 12 MARSALIS String Quartet No 1
What an interesting pairing of works the Euclid Quartet have come up with for their new disc. ‘American Quartets’ teams Dvořák’s String Quartet...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2017
CHOPIN Piano Sonatas Nos 2 & 3. Mazurkas Op 59
Craig Sheppard, the Philadelphia-born pianist who turns 70 this year, has built a remarkable career by almost any standard. He studied with...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2017
CHOPIN Complete Nocturnes (Rodrigues)
On the plus side, pianist Eliane Rodrigues possesses a colourful and focused sonority, abetted by the superb acoustic ambience of the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2017
CHIHARA Take the A Train
Paul Chihara (b1938) is well known as a film composer – starting with Death Race 2000 for Roger Corman in 1975 –...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2017
SIBELIUS Tapiola. En Saga, Eight Songs
‘I haven’t seen the ancient forests of Northern Finland but I still think I do a pretty convincing Tapiola’, Hannu Lintu told me for a...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2017
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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