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 Die schöne Magelone
Though recorded periodically and treated as a cultural touchstone in German-speaking countries, Brahms’s Die schöne Magelone still leaves seasoned English-speaking...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2017
Voyages: Organ of the Paris Philharmonie
Enormously popular in the first half of the 20th century and largely forgotten and generally reviled during the second half,...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 03/2017
Cyprien Katsaris: Elective Affinities
Die Wahlverwandt-schaften is claimed by the booklet writer to be ‘possibly the best novel’ by Goethe. ‘It refers to the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2017
William Kapell: Broadcasts and Concert Performances 1944‑1952
The death of William Kapell (1922 53) at the age of 31 in a plane crash robbed the world of...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2017
ZIMMERMANN Voces Abandonadas
A rare beast inside the world of German modern composition – a composer whose aesthetic spills out of John Cage...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 03/2017
WEITZ; JONGEN Organ Works
A quarter of a century has passed since Paul Derrett’s pioneering survey of Guy Weitz’s organ music, recorded in Hereford...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2017
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Introduction and Fugue for 2 Pianos
Around the same time (1945 46) that Vaughan Williams was collaborating with Joseph Cooper on the two-piano transcription of his...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Introduction and Fugue for 2 Pianos
Around the same time (1945 46) that Vaughan Williams was collaborating with Joseph Cooper on the two-piano transcription of his...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017
SCRIABIN 10 Piano Sonatas. Fantasy
Much of Garrick Ohlsson’s Scriabin sonata cycle is remarkably literal, maybe shockingly so. It’s as if the pianist were determined...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2017
SCHUBERT 4 Impromptus Op 90. Piano Sonata D959
After launching his Schubert cycle in bold fashion with the final sonata, D960, Barry Douglas continues with two other works...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2017
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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