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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Sonya Bach plays JS Bach
Pianist Sonya Bach writes in the booklet notes to her recording of Bach’s keyboard concertos that she performs her solo...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2017
Augmented
The repertoire for wind quintet is sizeable but musicians who play in these ensembles are always on the lookout for works...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2017
WUORINEN Alphabetical Ashbery. Fourth Piano Sonata
Charles Wuorinen’s Alphabetical Ashbery consists of four poem settings arranged by title in, you guessed it, alphabetical order. Jeffrey Gavett’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2017
MAHLER Symphony No 6, Tragic (Zander)
Benjamin Zander’s Philharmonia Mahler Sixth recording was riddled with tempo and texture miscalculations, skewed balances, expressive dead spots, plus generally...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2017
G LEWIS Assemblage
George E Lewis (b1952) is nothing if not a musical polymath: composer, improviser, installation artist, activist, trombonist, teacher (from San Diego...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2017
LERDAHL Episodes and Refrains. Quiet Music
The music of Fred Lerdahl (b1943) may just be one of America’s great secret treasures. Here is a composer, now in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2017
CHOPIN Piano Sonata No 3 LISZT Piano Sonata S178
The Baltimore-based pianist Chad R Bowles is co-director of the Peabody Piano Academy and the chair of the piano department in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2017
JS BACH Six Solo Cello Suites, BWV1007-1011
The recording catalogue is filled with performances of Bach’s Cello Suites in all sorts of interpretative guises. Many tend towards Romantic...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2017
ALDRIDGE Sister Carrie
Robert Livingston Aldridge and Herschel Garfein had a major success with Elmer Gantry, their opera based on the 1926 novel by...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2017
Regula Mühlemann : Cleopatra - Baroque Arias
The theme of Baroque arias for Cleopatra has been tried and tested before, notably by Isabel Bayrakdarian and Tafelmusik (CBC,...
Reviewed by David Vickers 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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