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...
The 18-year-old Mozart’s floral romp has been fair game for modern makeovers, most entertainingly in Doris Dörrie’s wacky 2006 Salzburg...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2015
Opus Arte’s DVD of Gilbert Deflo’s staged production of Orfeo at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu was given a thorough...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2015
Posterity has been kind to the various concertos of the Venetian dilettante Albinoni (1671 1750/51) published in his lifetime, but...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2015
Here’s an area of the piano’s repertoire that is not often visited. Nor is it at all common to hear...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2015
After Naxos’s lucky 13 discs of Moiseiwitsch comes a Testament three-CD album of previously unpublished recordings. Here, once more, you...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2015
John Christopher Smith (1712 95) was the son of Handel’s long-serving assistant Johann Christoph Schmidt. By 1725 he was studying...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2015
Schumann’s Album for the Young was composed for his young daughters, and, scaling down his volatile, complex and Romantic nature,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2015
Composers are often painfully aware of how much longer it can take to write down musical thoughts than it does...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2015
Pianist Claire Huangci has devised an ingenious programme concept for her second solo CD release, a two-disc Scarlatti collection. She...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2015
Carlo Grante, the Italian pianist who has recorded the Chopin-Godowsky Etudes and, remarkably, the complete Scarlatti sonatas, enters a crowded...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2015
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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