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...
‘I’m in love with Chopin – his music never ceases to amaze me’, Pollini is quoted as saying on the...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2017
A French-Canadian pianist named Hamelin, but not that one and no relation. Charles Richard-Hamelin (silver medallist at the 2015 Chopin...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2017
Maurice Steger’s latest album draws on the manuscript library of Count von Harrach, an elderly musical and recorder-minded Austrian diplomat...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2017
At least two challenges face any violinist who plays Fritz Kreisler’s music. First, there are the inimitable recordings by Kreisler...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2017
One of the most renowned clarinetists on the new music scene, Carl Rosman has worked closely with each of the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2017
This disc’s title comes from the fact that three of its virtuoso-composers were compared in their day either to an...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2017
It was a sensible choice for Augustin Hadelich and Joyce Yang to put André Previn’s Tango Song and Dance first...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2017
My colleague Andrew Mellor’s smart little analysis of the cul-de-sac into which Kaija Saariaho has driven her work during the...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2017
This review wrote itself. All the marvellous traits I noted in Vols 1 3 (2/14, 11/14, 3/16) apply here: the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2017
Although Borodin and Tchaikovsky wrote string quartets and, in Tchaikovsky’s case, a piano trio that have maintained their rightful place...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2017
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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