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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RIES Piano Trio. Sextets (The Nash Ensemble)
My second Ferdinand this month (see page 52), and another figure best known for his association with others. The most...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2022
MESSIAEN Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Åstrand; Teyssier; Salo; Thomsen)
With some three dozen versions currently available, Quatuor pour la fin du temps is the most recorded of Messiaen’s larger...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2022
HOLMBOE String Quartets, Vol 2 (Nightingale String Quartet)
The Nightingale Quartet’s first volume (3/21) opened with Holmboe’s first published quartet, Op 46, and this second concludes with his...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2022
HILLER Piano Quartet No 3. Piano Quintet Op 156
Ferdinand Hiller (1811 85) is one of those composers known more as a name in the biographies of others than...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2022
FRANCK Complete Chamber Music
‘Pater Seraphicus’ was the nickname bestowed on César Franck by his devoted pupils, the so-called bande à Franck. Genteel sensibilities...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2022
BRANCO; RAVEL; VILLA-LOBOS Violin Sonatas (Bruno Monteiro)
In programming terms alone, your interest may be piqued by this distinctly off-piste combination of violin sonatas from Portuguese violinist...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2022
BRAHMS; FINZI Music for Clarinet and Piano (Helen Habershon)
The thought of pairing Brahms and Finzi hadn’t occurred to me before but it makes perfect sense, particularly with the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2022
BRAHMS Serenades (Linos Ensemble)
Brahms was careful not to leave much if any evidence of his compositional struggles, thus there’s no score of the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2022
BERG; SCHOENBERG; WEBERN String Quartets
Anyone still thinking of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern as soulless serialists will be surprised by the feverish romanticism that burns...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 08/2022
BEETHOVEN String Quartet Nos 15 & 16 (Ehnes Quartet)
I have a friend who cannot abide ‘late’ Beethoven and I’d hazard a guess that the five-movement Quartet in A...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2022
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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