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...
Shai Wosner, the Israeli-born pianist now based in New York, already has several well-received solo discs to his credit, encompassing...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2016
Naxos’s centenary survey of Granados’s orchestral music continues with a second disc from the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra under Pablo González,...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2016
Chalk and cheese – or more aptly sweet and sour – is the flavour of this Glazunov and Shostakovich concerto...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2016
If you’re wondering, and this would be a perfectly reasonable point to raise, why an album of Morton Feldman’s music...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2016
Although his prominence among European composers has come about primarily through his operas, Peter Eötvös has been equally prolific in...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2016
You can’t fault the Houston Symphony for consistency. Their March release of Dvořák’s Seventh and Eighth Symphonies (5/16) was both...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 08/2016
Reviewing Christian Tetzlaff’s recording of the Concerto with the Helsinki Philharmonic under John Storgårds I made reference to ‘an exceptionally...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2016
Toru Takemitsu’s Nostalghia, an elegy for the great Russian film maker Andrei Tarkovsky, forms the memorable conclusion to this impressive...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 08/2016
This is the third time Czerny’s A minor Piano Concerto has appeared in these pages in as many issues, if...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2016
Although Kairos’s rate of production has decreased in the past few years, the Viennese label still regularly releases discs of...
Reviewed in issue 08/2016
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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