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...
There’s plenty to enjoy here, though Julia Fischer and Daniel Müller-Schott virtually duplicate a programme that Nigel Kennedy and Lynn...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW16
Cellist Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann is regularly to be found performing with early music ensembles such as La Petite Bande, Bach...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW16
First, a declaration of interest. Like anyone who learnt the cello through the ABRSM’s exams, the miniatures of WH Squire...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW16
This is the second time this year that Ludomir Różicki has featured in Gramophone – a composer highly regarded in...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW16
This is the hardest sort of disc to write about: good, thoroughly musical playing, yet without the enlivening, illuminating touch...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW16
North German critics with a humour bypass had taken Haydn to task for ‘the odd mix of the comic and...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW16
‘It would be hard to find a more vivid demonstration of the variety of French music-making in the last quarter...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW16
Ole Buck (b 1945) is one of the only composers to have emerged from Denmark’s 20th-century search for ‘new simplicity’...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW16
Heinrich von Herzogenberg dedicated the three quartets of his Op 42 (1884) to Brahms, his friend and musical idol. Hearing...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW16
Shortly after Boulez’s death, Richard Barrett published a brief ‘Boulez est mort’ article online. While for many the French composer...
Reviewed in issue AW16
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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