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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LAITMAN Holocaust 1944
Numerous composers have attempted to render the Holocaust (or at least some aspect of it) in music, often without the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2014
HOWELLS Stabat Mater
It is now 20 years since Howells’s substantial setting of the Stabat mater was recorded by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky and the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2014
HAYDN The Creation
Astonishingly, Haitink waited until he was 82 to conduct The Creation for the first time. Yet his profound sympathy for...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2014
GESUALDO Sacrarum Cantionum
Those expecting the composer’s trademark chromaticisms in his motets will be largely disappointed, but these more conservative pieces dispel the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2014
FRANDSEN Requiem
Complete settings of the Requiem Mass by Scandinavian composers are few and far between. Rarer still are those by Danes....
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2014
ELGAR Sea Pictures. Dream of Gerontius
This is unquestionably the strongest Gerontius to have come my way since Sir Mark Elder’s Gramophone Award-winning Hallé account (1/09)....
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2014
DEBUSSY Songs Vol 3
Having already earned plaudits for his first two volumes of Debussy songs (5/03, 6/12), Malcolm Martineau here partners the soprano...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2014
BORG 15 Songs. Landscape
Matti Borg (b1956) has enjoyed a triple career as an operatic baritone, composer and teacher. He graduated from Ib Nørholm’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2014
JS BACH St John Passion
The idea of faith merits not a single mention in almost an an hour of spoken material ancillary to this...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2014
Alison Balsom: Paris
Studying in Paris helped to define Alison Balsom’s belief of what a virtuoso trumpet soloist might achieve in the footsteps...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood 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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