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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BIBER Mystery Sonatas
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s so-called Mystery Sonatas are the best-known works of a composer superficially remembered for the extreme virtuosity...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014
John Ogdon – The Complete RCA Album Collection
RCA/Sony Classical’s six-CD album of John Ogdon’s complete RCA Red Seal recordings plus an additional Liszt recital from Japan coincides...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2014
STRAUSS Salome
It’s taken a little while for this Salome, filmed at Bologna’s Teatro Comunale in early 2010, to make it to...
Reviewed in issue 08/2014
STRAUSS Capriccio
Still a relative rarity in the opera house, Strauss’s last opera benefits perhaps more than any of his other works...
Reviewed in issue 08/2014
ROSSINI Maometto Secondo
Mehmet II was the Ottoman sultan who captured Byzantine Constantinople in 1453. The portrait attributed to Gentile Bellini, on display...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2014
ROSSINI Le Comte Ory
The lovely small Zurich Opernhaus is ideal for Rossini – as it is for Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier and their...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2014
PUCCINI Turandot
Long one of my favourite productions of anything, the Andrei Serban Turandot arrives on video, some 30 years after I...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014
PUCCINI Madama Butterfly
Musically solid and theatrically intriguing, this Madama Butterfly from Hamburg brings one to ponder whether this opera is truly about...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014
PUCCINI La fanciulla del West
Like many a live performance of La fanciulla del West, this one takes a while before everybody is warmed up...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 08/2014
Emma Matthews sings Mozart Arias
Emma Matthews is a soprano who has appeared in an impressive range of operas in her native Australia. Her repertoire...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2014
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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