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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BRAHMS Ballades and Fantasies
Pentatone has given Denis Kozhukhin a beautifully warm acoustic for this Brahms recording, setting his performances in the best possible...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2017
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 6: Moonlight
As Martin Roscoe crosses the halfway point towards completing his Beethoven sonata cycle for Deux-Elles, his poised and scrupulous playing...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2017
BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations. Six National Airs
The number of pianists who have recorded memorable accounts of the Diabelli Variations is surprisingly small. Among long-established classic versions,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2017
JS BACH Organ Works Vol 2
Far from the all purpose grandiloquence of the Martinikerk in Groningen – where Masaaki Suzuki recorded his most recent Bach...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2017
JS BACH Six Keyboard Partitas, BWV825 830
Like his traversals of the English and French Suites, Richard Egarr’s Bach Partitas largely convey a rhythmic focus that underlines...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2017
Rafał Blechacz: Johann Sebastian Bach
The Polish pianist Rafał Blechacz, particularly lauded for his Chopin interpretations, now turns to Bach, a composer with whom he...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2017
Virgin and Child: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks, Vol 2
After two albums of penitential motets and two Gramophone Early Music Award nominations, Contrapunctus swap shrouds for swaddling clothes in...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2017
Queen Mary’s Big Belly: Hope for an Heir in Catholic England
It’s an emotive concept – a queen pregnant with the hope of a nation, only to have it shrink away...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2017
Lucrezia Borgia’s Daughter: Motets from a 16th Century Convent
This surprisingly impassioned selection of anonymous motets from a Venetian publication Musica quinque vocum motteta materna lingua vocata (1543) has...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2017
Jubilate
Britain’s tradition of cathedral music-making is one of its greatest cultural legacies. This new recording from Andrew Carwood and St...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2017
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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