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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A Chopin Diary: The Complete Nocturnes
The Chinese-American pianist Claire Huangci has been warmly praised by my colleague Jed Distler (7/15) and it’s easy to understand...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2017
BINGHAM Organ Works
Although Resonus proudly proclaims, more than once, that this two-CD set of organ music by Judith Bingham consists ‘entirely of...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 08/2017
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 24, 28 & 32
Over the past decade and a half, the Austrian pianist Ingrid Marsoner has released some seven recordings playing, in addition...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2017
JS BACH Complete French Suites
By the time you read this, Ashkenazy will have turned 80 – which seems almost unbelievable. He has been turning...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2017
Schabernack - A Treasure Trove of Musical Jokes
Given how rare it is to find a centuries-old instrumental work to be really, genuinely funny, it’s tempting to take...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2017
TWIGG Chamber Music
Listeners unfamiliar with this composer have more than likely heard his playing, Colin Twigg (b1960) having been a violinist in...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2017
SCHUMANN Music for Clarinet
It’s quite rare that a clarinet disc focuses on Robert Schumann. A clarinettist’s chamber repertoire tends to be built upon...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2017
RAFTERY Chamber Music
This is – I believe – the first commercial recording of music by Kevin Raftery (b1952), an expatriate American composer...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2017
MOZART Serenade No 19, 'Gran Partita'
Gramophone’s classification (12/08) of the LSO as the fourth-best orchestra in the world always made me think of The Housemartins,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2017
MOZART; HAYDN Concertos & Divertimentos
The three concertos designated K107 are in fact arrangements of sonatas (Op 5 Nos 2 4) by JC Bach, whom...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2017
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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