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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JS BACH Mass in B minor
The paradox of recent performances of this mightiest of Bachian edifices is that as directors seek to be distinctive, almost...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2017
Maestro Corelli’s Violins
‘Maestro Corelli’s Violins’ is an intriguing title for a recording featuring no works by Corelli, but it refers to the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2017
Czech Viola Sonatas
Here’s a bold experiment: a survey of viola music by Czech composers, mostly born in the 1920s, whose names many...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 06/2017
VIEUXTEMPS Viola Sonatas
He built his reputation on the violin: writing for it, playing it to a level that invited comparisons with Paganini....
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 06/2017
SZYMANOWSKI Works for Violin and Piano
The litmus test here is the start of ‘La fontaine d’Aréthuse’, the most famous of the three Mythes, where, compared...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2017
L SMITH Drifte
Linda Catlin Smith (b1957) operates out of bustling urban Toronto, although her work puts you in mind of remote no-man’s-lands,...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2017
ORNSTEIN Complete Violin Sonatas
The life of Leo Ornstein (1893-2002) is of a fascination such that his music often tends to be overlooked. The...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2017
MAHLER Symphony No 4 (arr Stein)
What is the point of arranging music? To bring a work to a wider audience (when Beethoven and Brahms domesticated...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 8/2005
HAYDN The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross
A grotto draped in black, a single lantern, a bishop prostrate before the altar: Haydn himself described the circumstances of...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2017
GLANERT Elysion
Detlev Glanert matured under the tutelage of Henze, and in three of the six works here he pays homage to...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 06/2017
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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