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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STRAUSS Elektra
This new issue enters a crowded field but on paper has some unusual characteristics to distinguish it. First is the...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2015
RAVEL L'enfant et les sortilèges. Ma Mère l'Oye
Here is that odious Child again, recorded in 2013, a few months before the recently issued live performance conducted by...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2015
Röschmann: Mozart Arias
Dorothea Röschmann has sung all the Mozart roles represented here at either the Vienna Staatsoper, the Metropolitan Opera, or both....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2015
Edgar Moreau: Giovincello
When the young French cellist Edgar Moreau released his debut album last year (6/14) it was with a relatively soft...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2015
VIVALDI Il teatro alla moda
Finding a marketing angle on a new Vivaldi concerto release is sometimes an exercise in harmless deception, so it is...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2015
SIBELIUS Complete Symphonies
The close proximity of Simon Rattle’s latest survey of the symphonies with the majestic Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra only serves to...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2015
SIBELIUS Scaramouche
We have reached the sixth and final instalment in this fascinating series from Turku. It’s given over to just one...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2015
SCRIABIN Symphonies Nos 3 & 4
If some composers generate floods of discs when one of their anniversaries comes around, the centenary of Scriabin’s death has...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12q
PROKOFIEV Peter and the Wolf
Two updated versions of Peter and the Wolf in the same month? Must be Christmas. The first is a knock-out...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2015
PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 4 & 6
No fewer than three recent Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra chiefs have been recording Prokofiev symphonies, in Bergen and São Paulo as...
Reviewed by David Gutman 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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