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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Rostropovich Live at the 1961 Aldeburgh Music Festival
As a felicitous appendix to the compendious boxes from DG and Warner (5/17), this Testament release of Rostropovich in his...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2017
ZELENKA Six Sonatas, ZWV181
Zelenka’s six long and luxurious trio sonatas for oboes, bassoon and continuo were first brought into modern-day light in the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2017
Akoka: Reframing Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time
If the title and indeed often unearthly content of Messiaen’s best-known chamber work can lead us to listen to it...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2017
LINDROTH in our time...
A one-time pupil of Sven-David Sandström, the Swedish composer Peter Lindroth is now in his late sixties. This portrait CD...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2017
Hommage à Fritz Kreisler
I thought during the first track, Tambourin chinois, that I was in for another efficient and charmless collection of Kreisler...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2017
HOLST Chamber Music
‘Whatever his hand found to do he did it with his might’, wrote Vaughan Williams of his friend Gustav Holst,...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017
FURTWÄNGLER Piano Quintet
Furtwängler’s father was an archaeologist who assisted Heinrich Schliemann in the uncovering (some would say imaginative reconstruction) of the temples...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2017
FUCHS The Complete Works for Cello and Piano
It’s always nice to receive a new disc of music by Robert Fuchs, the Austrian symphonist who taught a regular...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017
FAURÉ Romance MATTHEWS Romanza
On the face of it, Fauré might not seem like the most obvious of pairings for the music of David...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017
4 X Anders Eliasson
Like his geographical neighbour Per Nørgård, Anders Eliasson hit upon a harmonic formula early in his career that freed him...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2017
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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