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...
Hyperion’s Brahms song survey reaches its sixth volume with this release and also alights, in Ian Bostridge, on a singer...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2015
Interlacing a selection of (mainly) popular Lieder with piano miniatures, Werner Güra and Christoph Berner here create the Beethovenian answer...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2015
Ulrich Leisinger’s new scholarly edition of the Mass in B minor is showcased by its publisher Carus with this deluxe...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2015
It has been referred to as an imagining of Pictures at an Exhibition for the 21st century, but ‘Objects…’ also...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2015
Lotta Wennäkoski has made it easy for people who want to listen properly to her beautiful music. The three movements...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW2015
Pride of place on the third volume in Leif Segerstam’s Turku PO series for Naxos of lesser-known Sibelius goes to...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2015
There is a sense here of how long and far Simon Rattle has journeyed with this music – one of...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW2015
Composers can be wayward judges of their own work. Respighi, it would seem, disliked his Metamorphoseon, commissioned in 1930 by...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW2015
Rachmaninov’s Third Symphony is the shared work in these otherwise dissimilar offerings. Valery Gergiev’s view is dark and stormy, his...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW2015
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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