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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SCHUMANN Novelletten. Gesänge der Frühe (Martin Helmchen)
The 1860 Bechstein pianoforte featured in the present recording is apparently a model identical to one of Franz Liszt’s preferred...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata D960. Drei Klavierstücke (Ayako Ito)
For more than two decades Ayako Ito has been performing on period pianos, such as the one built by Christopher...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022
REUSNER 'Delitiae testudinis' (William Carter)
I’m not sure how much William Carter knows about necromancy or quantum physics. But the search for meaning through communicating...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2022
PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 1, 3 & 5 (Alexander Melnikov)
Alexander Melnikov’s excellent Prokofiev sonatas series concludes with three of the most modest of the nine. Not that ‘modest’ is...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2022
Zlata Chochieva: Chiaroscuro - Piano Works by Mozart & Scriabin
Zlata Chochieva, whose beautiful sound at the piano is of a silvery, crystalline clarity, has chosen to juxtapose Mozart and...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2022
FUGA Piano Sonatas Nos 1-3
Sandro Fuga (1906 94) came from a northern Italian family of painters and sculptors with – at several removes –...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2022
CHOPIN Ballades. Piano Sonata No 3 (Jae-Hyuck Cho)
In his booklet notes for Chopin’s Ballades and Piano Sonata No 3, Jae-Hyuck Cho speaks of his goal to attain...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022
Lillian Gordis Plays Bach
Some charming playing here from California-born, Paris-based harpsichordist Lillian Gordis, and what’s perhaps even more special is how much it...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2022
ALBÉNIZ Iberia (Nelson Goerner)
Aside from navigating its considerable technical hurdles and textural complexities, pianists who take on Iberia must convey idiomatic affinity and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022
Anne Akiko Meyers: Shining Night
This recording, like so many others that have come my way this year, seems aimed to offer comfort. The title,...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2022
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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