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...
In all my years of reviewing Feldman performances, I’ve never heard one so catastrophically misconceived as Robert Simpson’s jazz-hands misreading...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 01/2016
Véronique Gens’s new album is an important issue on several fronts. First and foremost, it is arguably the most...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2016
No explanation is offered in the booklet for the belated release of these recordings from the early 1990s and perhaps...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2016
The title of this disc is ‘Motets pour une princesse’. The lady in question was Marie de Lorraine, the Duchesse...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2016
For her third Somm recording, Valerie Tryon turns to France, doubtless recalling her early studies in Paris with Jacques Février....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2016
Mozart’s Concerto for three pianos, K242, was composed in 1776 for the Countess Lodron and her two daughters, and later...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2016
Having recorded the Chopin Etudes aged just 18 (10/13), what could be more natural than the Schumann Concerto at 20?...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2016
When it comes to Baroque violin concertos, Vivaldi’s tend to get the lion’s share of the limelight in comparison to...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2016
This was my first encounter with the music of Karl Weigl (1881-1949). I fear it may also be my last....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2016
Hugo Reyne presents this disc very much in terms of his life with Vivaldi’s recorder concertos, from copying a tune...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2016
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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