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...
We encounter the name of Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741) in scholarly books more often than we hear his music. A...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2017
My usual impression of Brahms’s Op 67 Quartet, that it opens mid-flow, is heightened by the Kuss Quartet and their...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017
If you’re sitting still at the end of Brahms’s First Piano Quartet, with its madcap, almost parodistic Hungarian gypsy finale,...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2017
There are some combinations on ‘American Moments’ that feel more like conflicts than contrasts. Initial appearances suggest it is a...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2017
‘A great player at a small expense…Mr Babel…at once gratifies idleness and vanity’ is what the music historian Charles Burney...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2017
This is the first disc in what promises to be a recording of all six of Haydn’s ‘Paris’ Symphonies, coupled...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2017
'La Reine Harpe’ runs the disc’s title, the queen in question being Marie Antoinette, who did for the for harp...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2017
It’s all about timing. Eighteen months after the Berliner Philharmoniker elected the second Russian-born Chief Conductor in its 135-year history,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017
The last years of Stalin’s rule were touch-and-go for all Soviet creative artists, fearful as they were of a re-run...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2017
It was big news earlier this year when Decca Classics signed Dutch teenager Lucie Horsch as its first-ever recorder player....
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2017
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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