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RE: . . . Please, feel free to list all the commentary you've read w/in the past 15 years

Posted by Chris from Lafayette (A) on November 19, 2014 at 20:55:52

In Reply to: From you, that's a compliment. Please, feel free to list all the commentary you've read w/in the past 15 years posted by tinear on November 19, 2014 at 19:44:52:

Well, for one thing, recordings by the artists you mention are reissued at certain intervals and then get reviewed in various publications. I haven't read Fanfare or ARG for decades; however, more recently, I've been keeping in touch with BBC Music Magazine and the Gramophone (especially when one or the other is honoring a babe musician of the month!), and I do see these reissues of recordings by the artists you mentioned reviewed. In the case of the Gramophone, these types of reviews used to fall mainly to Bryce Morrison, one of the most shameless critics ever to appear in a periodical. (He didn't seem to care for Ingrid Haebler's Mozart Sonatas, until they were reissued under Joyce Hatto's name!) In any case, Morrison and the other British record reviewers definitely pay their obeisances to all the names you mentioned.

I also check online sources, such as Music Web International, Classics Today, and Audiophile Audition (which, despite its name, covers reissued recordings fairly extensively). For instance, checking Solomon on Classics Today (no Google search - just a search on the site!), I turned up 15 different reviews - I think mostly by Jed Distler - which seem pretty fair to me: the performance ratings range anywhere from 5/10 to 10/10, while the SQ ratings range from from 3/10 to 8/10. (I think that one 8/10 SQ rating is a little generous!) On MWI, I found only about 10 reviews. Still, that hardly indicates that he's been forgotten. I found only a couple of Solomon reviews on Audiophile Audition.

I sometimes like Solomon too for his straight-ahead, unfussy renditions of a lot of repertoire. (I think I still may have his recording of the Hammerklavier Sonata, despite the slightly flinty SQ.)

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