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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Spirit, Strength & Sorrow: Settings of Stabat Mater
Ever innovative in their programming, Harry Christophers and The Sixteen juxtapose Domenico Scarlatti’s beautiful 10-part Stabat mater – stile antico...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2015
The Marian Collection
This landmark Delphian recording forms the fourth and final issue of a series designed to showcase Merton College’s new choral...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2015
Invitation au voyage
So much beauty, so much perfumed languor, so much rapture intermingled with sorrow is inhabited in this collection of ‘mélodies...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2015
Flowers of the Field
The centenary of the outbreak of the First World War has not gone unmarked in the record industry. In the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2015
Thomas Michael Allen: Far Away
Young Peter Pears comes to mind (not always happily) during this recital that finds tenor Thomas Michael Allen out of...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2015
Xavier Sabata: I Dilettanti
This has a genuinely interesting concept: music for alto voice and basso continuo by six accomplished ‘dilettante’ composers, some of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2015
PIZZETTI Requiem ALLEGRI; MACMILLAN Miserere
The thesis of this disc isn’t a new one but it is always a welcome approach and has been originally...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2015
VERDI Requiem
Brahms believed that Hans von Bülow ‘disgraced himself for all time’ by lampooning this work as ‘opera in church clothing’....
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2015
SCHUBERT Schwanengesang
Florian Boesch is never a singer to take for granted. In Schwanengesang he changes the (posthumously) published order of both...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2015
PRZYBYLSKI Passio for 12 Voices
Born in Poland in 1984, Dariusz Przybylski studied in Germany with York Höller and Wolfgang Rihm; this recording was made...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2015
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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