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...
This is a Russian choral album with a difference, offering not only the rich, diatonic panoply of Glinka’s cherubim and...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2015
You can listen to this disc from Skip Sempé, Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons and Collegium Vocale Gent in the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2015
This is an intriguing programme from the Slovakian mezzo-soprano Lucia Duchoňová, consisting largely of works some way off the beaten...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2015
‘It was primarily thanks to music that the German-speaking countries were able to recover from the ordeal of the Thirty...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2015
This issue explores the earliest coherent repertory of what we now call the motet, namely four-voice Latin devotional pieces; and...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 02/2015
This CD’s imaginative programme offers music written in response to the events of the First World War. The five composers...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 02/2015
It feels like a long time since the last release from Ensemble Clément Janequin. They’ve been going for about 35...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2015
Anonymous 4 are retiring. Not immediately, but the American all-female vocal quartet have announced their decision to go their separate...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2015
Champs Hill Records has already given us a set of chamber music by Ludwig Thuille, the talented Munich composer and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2015
For the musically curious with time on their hands, as well as a penchant for superb a cappella singing, this...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2015
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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