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...
I came to Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s Bruckner Third with his bravura Schumann symphony cycle singing and dancing inside my head still,...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 03/2015
Two exceptional recordings taped eight years apart, both live: the Eroica at the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall in September 2005,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2015
The Swiss-Chinese pianist...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2015
Lorenzo Gatto is well equipped to play the Beethoven Concerto. His clear, ringing tone, coupled with an ability to play...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 03/2015
The conclusion to Frankfurt’s current Ring presents an unashamedly straightforward reading of the work that will appeal to those who...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2015
Given that Jonas Kaufmann has recently taken on the role of Des Grieux, first in London and then in Munich,...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2015
Though hardly a star vehicle, this Dialogues of the Carmelites features four celebrated Gallic sopranos, any one of whom would...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2015
Like the much-missed Lucia Popp, Simona aturová is a Slovak soprano from Bratislava. Her Haydn disc (Orfeo) was an Editor’s...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2015
Like other contemporary second-stage verismo dramas, Adriana Lecouvreur is chock-a-block with unfulfilled sexual promise and obsessive moving of period furniture....
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2015
The latest addition to the Palazzetto Bru Zane’s series of once well-known, now forgotten, French operas takes us to a...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2015
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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