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...
Bringing together two of the most individual pianistic brains around, giving them a copy of a Graf fortepiano and putting...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2017
In Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, there’s no question that pianist Leticia Gómez-Tagle can navigate the multi-textured thickets of notes...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2017
This is the third in Tom Winpenny’s Messiaen series for Naxos. Previous discs were recorded at St Alban’s Abbey (La...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2017
There is no shortage of excellent recordings of Messiaen’s second substantial organ work, La Nativité du Seigneur, of 1935. The...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2017
I’ve never met David Matthews, but he appears to be a generous soul. There’s hardly a piece in this collection...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017
Liszt’s peripatetic life seems to invite travelogue programming. Dejan Lazic´’s new Onyx CD touches on several places that inspired important...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2017
Naxos’s intrepid march through all Liszt’s piano music, begun 20 years ago, has now reached Vol 46. If Leslie Howard’s...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2017
Alessandro Taverna chooses to play up the contrasts between Debussy and Ravel in this recital, with the latter at his...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2017
Organists devising a chronological programme invariably come unstuck in the period between Bach and Mendelssohn. The orchestral symphony, the string...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2017
The title ‘Heatwave’ might well conjure rather a different music from that for flute, oboe and piano, though this disc...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2017
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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