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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MOZART; WEBER Clarinet Quintets
‘How I Met Mozart’: how indeed? Don’t look for answers in the booklet of this CD, which includes several pictures...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2017
GADE Chamber Works Vol 3
When we tot up the profit-and-loss account of Niels Gade’s bicentenary year in December, I fear it won’t be CPO’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2017
FAURÉ; FRANCK Violin Sonatas
What does a disc of Romantic French violin sonatas suggest to you? Subtle colours, belle époque elegance, the ‘play of...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2017
DUSAPIN String Quartets Nos 6 & 7
He may have limited presence in UK concert halls but Pascal Dusapin (b1955) continues to be among the most recorded...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2017
Bracing Change
The title is deliberately ambiguous. ‘Bracing Change’ can mean both ‘a refreshing change’ and the notion of nurturing and supporting...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2017
CZERNOWIN Wintersongs
In Chaya Czernowin’s music the natural world is frequently present and ever enigmatic. Nature here is not domesticated and anthropomorphised;...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 08/2017
CARBONELLI Sonate da Camera Nos 1-6
Of the crop of Italian violinist-composers who successfully made London their home in the early 18th century, Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2017
BRITTEN; PURCELL Chaconnes and Fantasias
My first port of call for comparisons in the Britten was the Belcea Quartet, initially in the first movement of...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2017
Triptych
Surely the best music here is by Clara Schumann, the Andante slow movement of her G minor Trio suggesting Brahmsian...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2017
Bach Stories
‘A new way of thinking about classical music and improvisation’ and ‘historical music practice in a contemporary form’ is the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2017
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
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...
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
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