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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HAYDN Piano Sonatas (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Leon McCawley)
This is the first of Leon McCawley’s Haydn volumes to come my way, though by no means the first of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2022
Simone Dinnerstein: Undersong
The idea of a musical refrain (a recurring theme, chorus or ‘hook’) unifies the works on this album, making for...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2022
Méditation. Les quatre saisons du luth (Simone Vallerotonda)
Italian lutenist Simone Vallerotonda, who admits philosophy ‘has been his passion and salvation’, shares with fellow gut-pluckers such as Lukas...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2022
Peter Dickinson: Lockdown Blues
Although occasionally veering towards sobriety, the pianist, composer and critic Peter Dickinson, a fine musician with a wealth of experience,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2022
JS Bach & Beyond: A Well-Tempered Conversation (Julien Libeer)
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1, with all its minor-key preludes...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2022
SCRIABIN Mazurkas (Andrey Gugnin)
Unlike his more numerous Preludes and less numerous Études, Scriabin’s Mazurkas are not spread evenly across his career, being concentrated...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2022
Michael Korstick plays The Essential Scarlatti
A great deal of care has gone into the creation of this two-disc Scarlatti recital. That’s evident from the detailed...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2022
RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No 1 RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit (Valentina Lisitsa)
You will remember Valentina Lisitsa as the Ukrainian pianist who broke the mould by establishing an international career courtesy of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2022
MEHMARI; VALE 'Brazilian Landscapes' (Mariama Alcântara)
Fans of Jascha Heifetz will have no trouble recognising Flausino Vale’s ‘Ao Pé da Fogueira’, the 15th of his Characteristic...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2022
FELDMAN Late works for piano (Alfonso Gómez)
Feldman’s single-movement late works are monumental in length, culminating in the six hour-long Second String Quartet (find a comfortable seat...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney 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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