Review - Michi X3 S2
It may be more expensive than the original X3, but sensible revisions to both the digital and...
After a wide-ranging exploration, over a number of consistently fascinating releases, of the baroque mandolin in Italy (with a brief...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2024
The Miró Quartet’s new album, ‘Home’, offers a discourse on the themes thrown up by the title: a nation’s people...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2024
The French have long been in an intimate relationship with the flute. Think of that siren call languorously opening Debussy’s...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2024
In this fourth instalment of Weinberg string quartets, the Arcadia Quartet tellingly juxtapose one of his greatest works with two...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2024
His output may be dominated by large-scale works for piano but Kaikhosru Sorabji wrote vocal and chamber pieces of relative...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2024
When reviewing Kilian Herold and the Armida Quartet’s recording of Johanna Senfter’s fine Clarinet Quintet, Richard Whitehouse hoped ‘that more...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024
Adaptations of Schubert range from faithful transcriptions to more intricate amplifications and radical realisations such as Berio’s Rendering. Since the...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 08/2024
International music competitions gifting a recording as part of their first-prize package may be increasingly common but few competition-label partnerships...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2024
According to cellist Dóra Kokas, ‘Hypnosis’ (this programme’s title) refers to the hypnotherapy Rachmaninov underwent in order to overcome a...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2024
David Pohle’s name is probably not familiar to many. Though his music appears on a handful of recorded anthologies of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2024
It may be more expensive than the original X3, but sensible revisions to both the digital and...
Rob Cowan revisits collections devoted to Mozart, Dukas, the Couperins and more
The latest amplifier technology is making possible truly tiny hi-fi components without compromising...
This book deserves to be snapped up by any lover of British music – and its renaissance that Foreman...
A rewarding read and an ambitious, serious and open-minded addition to the Wagner literature
America’s greatest pre-war baritone commemorated by Marston
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