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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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Op 31 (Andreas Haefliger)
At the end of the development section of the Allegro vivace of Op 31 No 1, Beethoven presents a wonderful...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2022
BARJANSKY Piano Music, Vol 2 (Julia Severus)
Julia Severus introduced Adolf Barjansky (1851-1900) to these pages in September 2020 with her first volume of premiere recordings. That...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2022
JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, Vol 1 (Frank Peter Zimmermann)
Technically, this album is difficult to fault. Frank Peter Zimmermann’s playing of the Preludio of Bach’s Partita No 3 in...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2022
JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Jean Rondeau)
Jean Rondeau’s Goldberg Variations clocks in at 107 minutes, observing all the repeats, including those in the Aria da capo....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2022
Pohádka: Tales From Prague To Budapest
The idea for this disc arose from these performers’ shared love of Janáček’s music. Laura van der Heijden – 2012’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022
Origines & Departs: French Music For Clarinet & Piano
Principal clarinettist of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Maximiliano Martín joins forces with pianist Scott Mitchell for what is more or...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022
SIBELIUS Works for Violin & Piano (Fenella Humphreys)
Fenella Humphreys conveyed tangible identity with Sibelius through her recent accounts of the Violin Concerto and all six Humoresques (8/21),...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2022
MOZART Violin Sonatas (Francesca Dego)
Readers may remember the perky pair of Mozart violin concertos Francesco Dego released last year with Roger Norrington and the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2022
MENDELSSOHN Violin Sonatas (Alina Ibragimova)
It’s interesting, albeit unsurprising, that Mendelssohn, despite his Violin Concerto in E minor of 1844 sitting as one of the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2022
MENDELSSOHN The String Quintets (Doric Quartet, Timothy Ridout)
Mendelssohn was famously acclaimed (by Schumann) as ‘the Mozart of the 19th century’ and (by Liszt) as ‘Bach reborn’. Both...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore 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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