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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SAINT-SAËNS; RAVEL Piano Concertos
The American pianist Andrew von Oeyen has been around for some time (b1979, orchestral debut aged 10). He has, I...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2017
GARRIDO-LECCA Peruvian Suite. Symphonic Tableaux
Add Celso Garrido-Lecca (b1926) to the long list of Latin American composers whose music deserves our attention. I’d heard his...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2017
GARRIDO-LECCA Peruvian Suite. Symphonic Tableaux
Add Celso Garrido-Lecca (b1926) to the long list of Latin American composers whose music deserves our attention. I’d heard his...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2017
DAVIS Napoléon
It will come as little surprise that Beethoven’s Eroica, the symphony he originally dedicated to Napoleon, looms large in Carl...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2017
CASELLA Divertimento per Fulvia GHEDINI Concerto Grosso
This is such an attractive programme that it’s hard to credit that three of the works here are receiving their...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017
BRAHMS 4 Serious Songs. Clarinet Sonata No 1
Despite Detlev Glanert’s self-professed feeling for the melancholia and severity of north German music (he was born in Hamburg), his...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2017
BERNSTEIN Symphonies Nos 1 & 2
A disc of two halves, for sure: a somewhat sober Jeremiah and a scintillating Age of Anxiety. Perhaps there is...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2017
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9
The Ninth at New Year is a Leipzig tradition instituted in 1918 by its music director, Artur Nikisch. The event...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2017
LISZT Piano Concerto No 2 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 1
Khatia Buniatishvili, with her trademark slash of red lipstick and tumbling, thick black hair, is among the most charismatic of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2017
JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos
Either Jascha Horenstein (in 1954) or August Wenzinger (1950-53) are commonly cited as leading the first Brandenburg Concertos to be...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill 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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