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...
Jos Zwaanenburg is a Dutch flautist with a taste for electronics, improvisation and chance procedures, and each of the composers...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 10/2014
Not so much nostalgique as excentrique. Luiza Borac, whose disc of music by her fellow countryman Dinu Lipatti I welcomed...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2014
Steven Osborne is on a bit of a Russian odyssey at the moment. Now it’s the turn of two great...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2014
Locatelli composed L’arte del violino in the mid-1720s, soon after Bach completed his solo Sonatas and Partitas and nearly 80...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 10/2014
For her Decca solo debut, the Italian pianist Maria Perrotta rather boldly offers a live concert recording of Beethoven’s last...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2014
How would Bach react to presenting his entire Art of Fugue in one sitting, with the final fugue incomplete as...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2014
Both of these albums will delight pundits and academics anxious to follow Albéniz’s early style before it blossomed into his...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2014
A touching tribute to Colin Davis from the orchestra with which he was latterly most closely associated. Sir Colin was...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW2014
It is going to be interesting to see how the newly appointed Master of the Queen’s Music responds to the...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: AW2014
This CD recording of Schoenberg’s most substantial dramatic work appears in the same year that Welsh National Opera gave the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: AW2014
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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