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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HANDEL Faramondo
Nowadays it seems difficult to comprehend why Faramondo (1738) was a marginally stronger success than its close contemporary flop Serse....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2014
GLASS The Lost
It isn’t every day that an opera house opens its doors for the first time. Hardly surprising, then, that the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue:
BORODIN Prince Igor
Compared to the task of sorting a performing version of Borodin’s unfinished 1869 87 opera, choosing an edition of a...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2014
BIZET Carmen
There’s no shortage of good filmed versions of Carmen and one of the best, from Covent Garden, like this one,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2014
BERG Lulu
It’s only right that any performance of Lulu should revolve around its protagonist. But the way that the Canadian soprano...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2014
Thile & Meyer: Bass & Mandolin
Whether it’s by playing solo Bach with astonishing physical and intellectual dexterity, jamming with the likes of Yo Yo Ma,...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2014
Llŷr Williams: Wagner Without Words
Wagner’s operas have inspired innumerable piano transcriptions from Carl Tausig to Zoltán Kocsis but those to which pianists most frequently...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2014
DEBUSSY Images Books 1 & 2. Préludes, Book 2
Marc-André Hamelin’s stature, extraordinary from the start, increases with every new issue. And here in his latest album he subdues...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2014
OFFENBACH Fantasio
To say that Fantasio was one of Offenbach’s more obscure operas would be putting it mildly. A failure at the...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2014
Patricia Petibon: La Belle Excentrique
Patricia Petibon’s photo along with some art nouveau-ish script implies music from the belle époque. But no. This far more...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2014
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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