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...
Two discs of Telemann concertos and ouverture-suites, both by ensembles of similar size, even with a work in common (an...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07
There are good things here and Altus has achieved a decent match between two separate acoustics: the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2015
Competition is pretty intense as far as the Lemminkäinen Suite is concerned, not least from Ondine’s own Leif Segerstam (7/96)...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2015
After the epic outrage and defiance of the ‘war’ symphonies, Nos 7 and 8, Shostakovich’s Ninth seemed deliberately designed to...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2015
There was a time when Schubert’s Great C major Symphony seemed an interpretatively elusive work, which explains why such store...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2015
This, the third volume of Friedemann Eichhorn’s traversal of the violin concertos of Pierre Rode, takes in his heyday in...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 07/2015
Another month, another complete Daphnis et Chloé. It was only in May that I warmly welcomed the recording by the...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2015
No, I hadn’t either. And my guess is that, unless aware of CPO’s five earlier volumes of Dora Pejačevic´’s music,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015
It adds something to journey through this amazing cycle of symphonies in sequence and in relatively quick succession. The recent...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2015
Ruy Blas is something out of the ordinary, and not only because of its sleek lines and uncommonly fast tempi...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2015
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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