Dec 13, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Volume Eight of Martin Roscoe’s Beethoven Cycle for Deux-Elles includes an absorbing, electrifying and subtly dynamic account of the ‘Appassionata’ Sonata (Opus 57) that enthrals from first note to last – the pianist’s concentration is palpable as his fingers stride...
Dec 12, 2020 | Recording Reviews
It would be easy, I think, to pass over this release on the nod. But, performance-wise it’s very good. Set down as recently as October in Henry Wood Hall, London – albeit with rather edgy sound (the venue is dry but not this fortissimo-steely) – Rimma Sushanskaya...
Dec 6, 2020 | Recording Reviews
When Rafael Kubelík recorded Beethoven’s Nine Symphonies for Deutsche Grammophon he conducted each one with a different orchestra. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (which back then partnered him for a superb Symphony No.2) reverses that concept – this august ensemble...
Nov 28, 2020 | Recording Reviews
This civilised performance of the C-major Piano Concerto No.1 (from Berlin concerts in December 2016) is led-off by a dapper and nuanced introduction from the Philharmoniker and Christian Thielemann, the orchestra captured wide and deep, timpani hard-right, basses...
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Nov 28, 2020 | Recording Reviews
July 25. It should have been the opening night of this year’s Bayreuth Festival. It was not to be. Indeed, the whole season was “silent”. Instead the conductor and selected instrumentalists decanted to Haus Wahnfried – once the Wagners’ villa and now a museum devoted...
Nov 15, 2020 | Recording Reviews
If, like me, you sometimes feel a little lost amidst the sheer diversity and structural complexity of Johann Sebastian Bach’s (thirty) Goldberg Variations (BWV988) – Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen – then, also like me, you may find Pavel Kolesnikov’s reading a...
