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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GUARNIERI Choros Vol 2: Flor de Tremembé
In the sense meant by the old phrase ‘a painter’s painter’, Camargo Guarnieri is ‘a composer’s composer’. His music grabs...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2022
GHEDINI L'Olmeneta MALIPIERO Cello Concerto
There are passages in Gian Francesco Malipiero’s 1937 Cello Concerto that sound as if they might have come from a...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2022
DEBUSSY La Damoiselle élue. Le martyre de Saint Sébastien
The Debussian sensibility is writ large here. One can trace a line of succession from the ‘Sirènes’ of Nocturnes via...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2022
New York Youth: Price, Coleman, Montgomery
Florence Price is fast becoming the flag-bearer for a whole new generation of female African American composers. And she is...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2022
MONTEVERDI Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (Dantone)
‘What God watches over the sleeping?’ asks Monteverdi’s Ulisse in his first outpouring. Here it’s the whole damn lot of...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2022
Héloïse Werner: Phrases
It is hard not to be in awe of Héloïse Werner: a soprano of extraordinary range, tone and vocal abilities,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2022
Helen Charlston: Battle Cry - She Speaks
‘Battle Cry’ – it’s an arresting title for an equally arresting album, the solo recital debut from mezzo Helen Charlston....
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2022
JOSQUIN DESPREZ 'Tant vous aime'
Josquin has long been established as a pre-eminent oltremontano – a northern European composer who crossed over the mountains into...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 07/2022
CHAMPION Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena
If I praised this ensemble’s last disc to the skies (8/21), it’s because it brought something new to the table:...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2022
The Art of Duo-Piano Playing
Though not as well known in the UK and Europe as they were in the US, the piano duo of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas 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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