Echoes of Genius: From the Dawn of Electrical Recording to Hidden Violin Treasures
Rare and revelatory, these archival releases span a century of recording history – from the...
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LE BRET Pieces de Clavecin (Simone Pierini)
Well here’s a name that’s probably new to most of us. Le Bret published a single book of harpsichord pieces...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2024
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 28 & 29 (James Brawn)
In 2013 James Brawn launched his ‘Beethoven Odyssey’, a survey of the composer’s 32 piano sonatas that reaches its final...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2024
Rooted: Smetana, Suk, Martin, Coleridge-Taylor
The Neave Trio are noted for their eclectic choice of repertoire, and here their broad interests once again illuminate unfamiliar...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 09/2024
An die Musik: Works for Cello & Piano
Cellists are fully warranted in their appropriation, via the art of transcription, of works for other instruments. After all, violinists...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2024
SHAW Rectangles and Circumstance
Caroline Shaw’s association with percussion quartet Sō Percussion goes back to their graduate school days at Yale University some 20...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2024
SCHUMANN String Quartets. Piano Quintet
As musical birthday presents go, Schumann’s three string quartets vie with Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll – both were dedicated to the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2024
HUBER Piano Quintets Nos 1 & 2
Swiss composer Hans Huber (1852-1921) – whose output included five operas, eight symphonies (recorded two decades and more ago by...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2024
GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN String Quartets Nos 7-10
Reviewing Volume 1 of this cycle (5/19), Andrew Mellor welcomed the ‘tight, no-nonsense and considered performances’ by the Nordic Quartet....
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2024
GIPPS Piper of Dreams: Chamber Music for Oboe
No doubt as to the standout item on this latest volume from Chandos devoted to the music of Ruth Gipps...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2024
FELDMAN Complete Music for Cello and Piano (Stephen Marotto)
The title of Patterns in a Chromatic Field invites a visual analogy to the American school of abstract expressionism that...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2024
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Myra Hess: a national treasure revisited in Jessica Duchen’s biography
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Mahler in miniature: Stephen Downes delivers a witty, wry portrait for the Critical Lives series
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Michel Béroff at 75: Erato's monumental box-set celebrates a brilliant and versatile pianist
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
New box-sets: Beethoven from Barenboim, Arrau and Klemperer, plus Irmgard Seefried Edition
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
Fell Audio debuts with British-made hi-fi duo offering style, substance, and value
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
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