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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MACONCHY; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Songs, Vol 1 (James Geer)
A stimulating release, this, particularly valuable for its focus on the neglected song output of one of Vaughan Williams’s most...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2022
LIGETI; KODÁLY Lux Aeterna
The works presented here by Kodály are folk inspired, and culminate in a superb rendition of Mátra Pictures. Kodály’s work...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2022
FRANCK Complete Songs and Duets
Bru Zane’s first contribution to this year’s Franck bicentenary is this fine survey of his songs, a form with which,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2022
Magdalena Hoffman: Nightscapes for Harp
When my daughter was four or five and having trouble falling asleep, I slipped a lovely Telarc CD by harpist...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2022
Ruth Slenczynska: My Life In Music
Last year I was lucky enough to review the wonderful DG Eloquence set of Ruth Slenczynska’s ‘Complete American Decca Recordings’...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2022
Daniel Barenboim: Encores
Far be it from me to be a party pooper, but my first reaction on seeing the running order of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2022
Rebecca Omordia: African Pianism
For her fascinating new Somm release, ‘African Pianism’, Nigerian-Romanian pianist Rebecca Omordia has chosen music from three Nigerian composers, Ayo...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2022
WEINBERG Sonatas For Violin Solo (Gidon Kremer)
The unaccompanied sonatas for strings (four each for viola and cello, three for violin and one for double bass) might...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2022
TABAKOVA; VLADIGEROV 'Slavic Roots' (Marina Staneva)
The young Bulgarian pianist Marina Staneva’s solo CD debut offers two major-length works by Pancho Vladigerov, whose ingenuous Romantic keyboard...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2022
RAVEL The complete music for solo piano, Vol 1 (Oleg Marshev)
The old adage ‘let sleeping dogs lie’ applies to Maurice Ravel’s La parade, an over-extended music-hall pastiche that never should...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2022
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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