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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DONIZETTI Chiara e Serafina (Quatrini)
As revivals of forgotten operas go this is a gem: a clever staging, finely sung, of an opera that owes...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2024
Veronique Gens: Paysage
French vocal music could not have a finer ambassador’ was how I closed my citation for our Artist of the...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024
New Millennium
Between 2007 and 2022 Andrew Nethsingha raised the already high standard of the Chapel Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
Masters of Imitation
I’ll get straight to the point and say that this new release from The Sixteen, celebrating the Renaissance tradition of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2024
Lumen Christi: A Sequence of Music for the Easter Vigil
Here’s the second ‘sequence’ of liturgical music recorded by Westminster Cathedral Choir in the faraway surroundings of Buckfast Abbey, whose...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2024
VICTORIA Tenebrae Responsories (Hollingworth)
Robert Hollingworth’s motto for this disc is the question he poses in his introduction: ‘How can so little mean so...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 04/2024
STAINER The Crucifixion
Has John Stainer’s 1887 warhorse ever truly gone out of fashion? This ‘Meditation on the Sacred Passion of the Holy...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
RACHMANINOV All-Night Vigil (Antonenko)
In recent years there has been almost an embarrassment of fine recordings of Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil, better (if erroneously) known...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
PERGOLESI Stabat Mater VIVALDI Nisi Dominus
This third album from PRJCT Amsterdam is also their Pentatone debut. Pergolesi’s Stabat mater and Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus must be...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024
JEFFREYS 'Lost Majesty - Sacred Songs and Anthems'
If you have ever stopped to wonder about that awkward musical gap between William Byrd and Henry Purcell in traditional...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024
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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