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...
Gidon Kremer is one of those rare musicians capable of illuminating a new work in such a way as to...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2015
Bach, performed on a modern copy of a period instrument: nothing new there. Until you discover the instrument in question...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2015
Widor’s ubiquitous Toccata from Symphony No 5, in spite of being his defining work, is by no means representative of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2015
The exquisite chaconne from the final concerto of Vivaldi’s La stravaganza may be worth the entry price alone. But this...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2015
Captured live at Davies Symphony Hall, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony serve up a Tchaikovsky pairing of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2015
It’s taken nearly a decade for Pentatone to release a follow-up to its first Strauss disc with Marek Janowski, a...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2015
This is the first in a new series of six CDs from Naxos devoted to lesser-known Sibelius works and featuring...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2015
Svetlanov, Muti and Ashkenazy have all, perforce, included the First Symphony in their complete Scriabin symphony surveys, but otherwise it...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2015
‘Lean of tone and impetuous’ is how Richard Wigmore described Antonello Manacorda’s coupling of Schubert’s Third and Eighth symphonies with...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2015
Between 2003 and 2006, the Berlin Philharmonic devoted two concerts each season to what was in effect a Harnoncourt Schubert...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2015
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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