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...
Julius Röntgen’s not-entirely undeserved reputation for composing too much may lead unwary listeners to pass by this third instalment of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2016
The main interest here is the premiere recording of the newly discovered violin and piano introduction to the Moses Fantasy:...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2016
When Haydn completed his Six Quartets, Op 50, in 1787, they triggered a Europe-wide bidding war among music publishers. As...
Reviewed in issue 03/2016
Haydn’s last completed set of quartets, commissioned by Count Joseph Erdödy, share the ‘London’ Symphonies’ combination of popular appeal and...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2016
Even as a lapsed clarinettist, it’s difficult to argue much of a case for Bruch’s Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2016
It’s a decade ago now that Trio Wanderer recorded the three standard Brahms piano trios for Harmonia Mundi, in a...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2016
Solidly Russian-school and an eminently expressive cellist, Alexander Kniazev is in many ways perfectly suited to the Romanticism of Brahms’s...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2016
Two brand-new Beethoven cycles from two major violinists, born little more than a year apart. Tasmin Little has a long-standing...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2016
As Decca is somewhat shy about letting on exactly who the sisters Sarah and Deborah Nemtanu are (at least in...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2016
Leila Schayegh is not yet among the most familiar names in the Baroque violin world, perhaps because the sonata recordings...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2016
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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