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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JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Klára Würtz)
Hungarian-born Klára Würtz is a matured child prodigy with a difference: her pianism sidesteps overt display or affectedness in favour...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2022
JS BACH The Complete Works For Keyboard, Vol. 6 (Benjamin Alard)
Volume 6 in Benjamin Alard’s cycle covering JS Bach’s complete keyboard output brings us The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1. It’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2022
Mozart Momentum - 1786
I was lucky enough to review the first volume of ‘Mozart Momentum’ (6/21) and this second one, centred around 1786,...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2022
BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations (Mitsuko Uchida)
Has Diabelli’s innocent theme ever been given such a sharp profile, I wonder? The grace notes are fractionally elongated, so...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2022
ElectroResonance
This programme of interactive electronic music by composer-improvisers Jane Rigler, Curtis Bahn and Thomas Ciufo was recorded live on a...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 04/2022
Collected Works of Beth Mehocic
The title of this disc is misleading. Beth Mehocic (1953-2022) composed a good deal more than the six works collated...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022
LYN A Point on a Slow Curve
It took Dana Lyn eight years to create what might be described as a musical diorama accompanying the process by...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 04/2022
ELISHA 'Anthelion'
One of the greatest joys of being a reviewer is encountering an unfamiliar compositional voice. Adrienne Elisha (1958-2017) was a...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022
AYLWARD Celestial Forms and Stories
The title of John Aylward’s five-movement suite, performed on a New Focus disc by members of Klangforum Wien, comes from...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2022
Nadine Sierra: Made for Opera
In the booklet note for her second solo album, Nadine Sierra waxes lyrical about how she was formed as a...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022
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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