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...
At the heart of this disc lie three works that Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) composed for piano and orchestra: the Scherzo-Caprice...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2015
These three concertos make an effective introduction to the music of a composer whose birth centenary fell in 2014; and...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2015
No aficionado of Soviet music can afford to be without at least one disc of Alexander Mosolov, the composer who...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2015
The latest issue in Frank Strobel’s Original Motion Picture Scores series, surveying orchestral music written as live accompaniment for silent...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2015
Roughly a contemporary of Wilhelm Stenhammar, Henning Mankell (1868 1930) enjoyed an undramatic existence in Sweden as a critic and...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2015
In December 2014 Daniel Harding stepped in to conduct this very work with the Berlin Philharmonic, a high-profile engagement in...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2015
Because Leonard Bernstein made his only studio recording of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony in London, the first American ensemble to set...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2015
Leevi Madetoja described his friend and associate Toivo Kuula as ‘a man who knows what he wants and is confident...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2015
There’s a lot going on here. Henning Kraggerud’s four concertos (‘Afternoon’, ‘Evening’, ‘Night’ and ‘Morning’) of six movements are reflections...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2015
I had never come across August Klughardt (1847-1902). There is a statue of him in Dessau, where he spent most...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2015
Rare and revelatory, these archival releases span a century of recording history – from the...
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
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