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...
Sunhae Im, the Korean soprano familiar from her contributions to René Jacobs’s recordings of Mozart operas, here turns to concert...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2015
This impressively wide collection of pieces comes from the formidable Leeds-based choir, the St Peter’s Singers, recording in Frank Matcham’s...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 05/2015
Early music needs another British vocal ensemble like a meerkat needs car insurance. It’s a field that’s already standing-room only,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2015
Philippe Jaroussky clearly subscribes to the habit-forming appeal of French art song, having titled his first recorded recital ‘Opium’, and...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2015
It would be difficult to find a group more steeped in serious musicological research than Cappella Romana, and their discs...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2015
Launched with 2014’s ‘The Art of Melancholy’ (Hyperion, 7/14), the partnership between young lutenist Thomas Dunford and countertenor Iestyn Davies...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2015
The music of Spain’s Golden Age has always been near to Harry Christophers’s heart, a commitment that shines through in...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2015
Amid a clutch of floral favourites – say, Purcell’s ‘Sweeter than roses’ (in Britten’s flamboyant arrangement), Schumann’s ‘Jasminenstrauch’ and Fauré’s...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2015
Unlike the earlier mix-and-match releases in Hyperion’s Strauss song survey, this disc consists entirely of less popular works, opening with...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2015
The Moravian-born composer Franz Xaver Richter (1709 89) is one of those ‘pre-Classical’ figures whose music is written about more...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2015
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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