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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SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 10 (Sokhiev)
There’s a great deal to admire here. Some individual new thinking, too. In some ways the Tenth is the most...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2022
MARTINAITYTĖ Ex Tenebris Lux
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė (b1973), a Lithuanian composer living in New York, has been building a considerable reputation for herself in recent...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2022
MALIPIERO Violin Concertos Nos 1 and 2. Per Una Favola Cavalleresca
Malipiero often appears to be a chameleon, as Naxos’s fine recordings of his work over recent years have demonstrated, but...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2022
LISZT Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2. Piano Sonata (Alexander Ullman)
Not surprisingly for the winner of the Budapest 2011 and Utrecht 2017 Liszt Competitions, the British pianist Alexander Ullman, who...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2022
IRELAND Orchestral Works (Wilson)
Anyone who invested in John Wilson’s admirable Ireland release with the Hallé (12/09) will naturally be wondering whether it’s worth...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2022
HAYDN Complete Symphonies, Vol 26 (Klumpp)
Pity poor HobI:107, aka Symphony ‘A’. Long thought to be a quartet (Op 1 No 5) rather than a symphony...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2022
BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Poschner)
On completion in 2024, Markus Poschner’s cycle of the Bruckner symphonies will include all three versions of the Fourth Symphony....
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2022
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 2 WEBERN Concerto Op 24 (Pina Napolitano)
Reviewing Pina Napolitano’s first ‘Brahms the Progressive’ recording (7/18), I wrote how the pianist seemed more confident and commanding in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2022
BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 (Blomstedt)
Herbert Blomstedt is a member of a much-respected senior ‘rostrum elite’ (Haitink, Boult, Böhm, Wand and the like) that over...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2022
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6 STUCKY Silent Spring
Manfred Honeck’s Beethoven does not ‘speak for itself’, whatever that is supposed to mean. Indeed, this Pastoral delivers something to...
Reviewed by David Gutman 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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