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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QUILTER The Complete Songbook Vol 2
The talented baritone Mark Stone adds another fine disc to his discography. Once again, the range of colour and dynamic...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2014
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 2
Mendelssohn’s choral symphony, the Hymn of Praise, still deserves a wider currency than it presently enjoys. Cast as a hybrid...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2014
HANDEL Messiah
Emmanuelle Haïm plumps for a neatly convenient four-soloist version presented in the main text of John Tobin’s Bärenreiter edition. This...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2014
FAURÉ Requiem. Pavane. Songs
Unsurprisingly, their website includes generous words of praise about the first release on the Orchestra of St John’s own label....
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2014
BRUMEL Missa de beata virgine. Motets
The precise date of Antoine Brumel’s death is not known but its 500th anniversary may well have fallen about the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2014
BRAHMS Choral Works
From the three sets of unaccompanied motets Brahms composed at various times, only one from the second set (Op 74)...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2014
BERG; BUSONI; WEBRN; ZEMLINSKY Lieder
The short-lived Society for Private Musical Performances, founded by Schoenberg and his pupils, is the inspiration for this unusual disc....
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2014
Jonas Kaufmann: You Mean the World to Me
The distinctive repertoire was planned by Thomas Voigt – not a trawl through predictable encores but a look at the...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2014
Maria Luigia Borsi: Italian Opera Arias
It is welcome to have on the Naxos budget label a collection of Italian soprano arias as attractive as this...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2014
WAGNER Lohengrin
No sooner has de Billy walked out of the Vienna State Opera in a dispute about cuts in Lohengrin than...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2014
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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