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...
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MENDELSSOHN; F HENSEL Songs Without Words
Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words may have suffered from their association with the Victorian parlour (just as his oratorios became indelibly...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2015
SCRIABIN; JANÁČEK Sonatas and Poems
Stephen Hough’s piano-playing always seems informed by a composer’s instincts and sensibilities, attributes immediately discernible in his new recording combining...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2015
FERNEYHOUGH Complete Piano Works
Nicolas Hodges stares into the middle distance, his fingers perched over the keyboard, his pupils fully dilated: cover art that...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2015
COUPERIN Pieces
This disc is as interesting for the instrument as for Louis Couperin’s music. Colin Booth, exceptionally, is both a fine...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 11/2015
CHOPIN Complete Preludes
Comparisons may be invidious, but they seem inescapable for two new sets of Chopin Preludes by Dong-Hyek Lim and Yundi....
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2015
JS BACH Six Solo Cello Suites, BWV1007-1012
The reverence with which some cellists choose to treat Bach’s Cello Suites can produce results that disappear in opposite directions:...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2015
JS BACH Preludes and Fugues
This unusual disc takes as its starting point those succinct keyboard pieces, both stand-alone and developed later in collections (notably...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2015
JS BACH Goldberg Variations
‘You’ve got to learn your instrument. Then, you practise, practise, practise. And then, when you finally get up there on...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2015
Songs from the Arc of Life
What is the most challenging repertoire for any artist to commit to disc? Bach’s Cello Suites, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, Mozart’s...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2015
Music for Winds
The five original members of London Winds have been playing together since 1988 and a sense of innate musical understanding...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2015
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Myra Hess: a national treasure revisited in Jessica Duchen’s biography
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Mahler in miniature: Stephen Downes delivers a witty, wry portrait for the Critical Lives series
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Michel Béroff at 75: Erato's monumental box-set celebrates a brilliant and versatile pianist
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
Fell Audio debuts with British-made hi-fi duo offering style, substance, and value
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
New box-sets: Beethoven from Barenboim, Arrau and Klemperer, plus Irmgard Seefried Edition
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
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