Replay (December 2024): Edith Peinemann, The French Piano School, Géza Anda & Kolisch String Quartet
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
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PuRCELL 12 Sonatas of 3 Parts
There is no particular stylistic distinction between Purcell’s two sets of trio sonatas, despite the fact that one (published in...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2011
MENDELSSOHN Piano Trios
Another month, another Mendelssohn trios disc. This new one from the Hamlet Trio, a group just four years old, boasts...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2015
KOECHLIN Chamber Music for Oboe
Only a fraction of Koechlin’s immense output is available on disc, so Stefan Schilli’s survey of his chamber works for...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2015
GRANADOS; TURINA Piano Quintets
Javier Perianes here champions two chamber works by composers who hailed from Andalusia, as indeed does he. Perianes has shown...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2015
BRUCKNER String Quintet. String Quartet
This first ‘period’ recording of Bruckner’s String Quintet may overturn some preconceptions. When writing it in 1879, the composer was...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2015
Baroque Divas
Decca needs to sell copies, of course. Just don’t be deceived by the disc’s title and the coyly titillating cover....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2015
WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
As this performance has been available unofficially for some time, collectors may already know that ‘Kna’, the legendary dinosaur of...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2015
WAGNER Opera Arias
Evgeny Nikitin is an estimable Wagnerian but is perhaps best known for a performance that never happened. He was cast...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2015
VERDI Aida
Opera houses are on a hiding to nothing when staging Verdi’s Aida. Audiences crave the sort of spectacle usually reserved...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2015
STRAUSS Die Frau ohne Schatten
The Strauss anniversary year might have offered a fair number of performances to keep FroSch-fanciers happy, but not much of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2015
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Joan Sutherland: The Complete Decca Recordings
Tim Ashley hears the first instalment in a reissue of Joan Sutherland’s complete recordings
Review - Roberto Alagna: All’Opera
Mark Pullinger enjoys a survey of the ever-youthful tenor’s EMI recordings
Box-set Round-up: December 2024 (Poschner, Knappertsbusch, Schaller)
Rob Cowan listens to sets of Bruckner and Schubert symphonies, plus a pair of pianists
Review - Colin Davis in Amsterdam and London
David Gutman revisits the British conductor’s recordings with two major orchestras
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