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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BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 5
I’m not sure who’s the hero of the hour in this recording – the pianist, the orchestra or the timpanist....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2015
MENDELSSOHN; BARTÓK Violin Concertos
The musical logic behind this coupling isn’t difficult to fathom. Both Mendelssohn and Bartók composed two violin concertos, one in...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2015
ATTERBERG Symphonies Nos 1 & 5
This latest volume in Chandos’s Atterberg survey concentrates, as did Vol 2 (3/14), on a contrasting pair of symphonies. The...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2015
Il Trionfo di Dori
It has traditionally been something of a rarity for The King’s Singers to produce either a single-composer disc or a...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 08/2015
The Tempest
This debut disc from French artistic collective La Tempête and their director Simon-Pierre Bestion is, at first glance, frankly bizarre....
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2015
Salvator Mundi: The Purcell Legacy
For the inaugural release on their own label, the University of St Andrews offer a programme of English church music...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 08/2015
Planctus: Death and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages
Marking the 500th anniversary of the Council of Constance (1414-18), which ended the Papal Schism, this fascinating new programme of...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2015
I have set my heart so hy
The Dufay Collective have been around for 25 years, generally focusing on the more folksy aspects of medieval music; William...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2015
Cantar de Amor
As the booklet-notes for this engaging disc point out, opera didn’t really catch on in 17th-century Spain, despite the efforts...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2015
WEIR Storm
Vocal – particularly choral – music has been a strong and persistent thread through Judith Weir’s output from the start...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2015
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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