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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STRAUSS Lieder
After Thomas Hampson’s recital disc last month, this will do nicely as a contrasting offering for Strauss’s 150th anniversary. Christiane...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 08/2014
SCHUBERT Songs
From a marketing standpoint, the presence of a dozen or so Ian Bostridge Schubert discs might suggest a saturation point....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014
RACHMANINOV All-Night Vigil
How low can you go? To a choral director considering the All-Night Vigil this is, perhaps, the paramount question. Although...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2014
A & R PANUFNIK Songs and Trios
Two fascinating and quite different discs of music by the two Panufniks, father and daughter. ‘Dreamscape’ is a beautifully conceived...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2014
PALESTRINA Lamentationes Hiermiae
There’s a restraint – and not just the enforced restraint of Tridentine edicts – to Palestrina’s four sets of Lamentations...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2014
MOZART Requiem
In what amounts to a masterpiece of disastrous timing, Mariss Jansons’s live (applause excised) Concertgebouw Mozart Requiem follows only a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2014
PÄRT Stabat Mater MOODY Simeron
The music of both Arvo Pärt and Ivan Moody is characterised by its directness, the sonic purity of its gestures....
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2014
MONTEVERDI Vespro della beata Vergine 1610
This is in many ways a ‘traditional’ Monteverdi Vespers, carrying little in the way of musicological baggage. Performed in the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2014
MAHLER Lieder
This recital takes us through 25 years of Mahler’s composing life, from the Frühe Lieder to the Rückert Lieder. Not...
Reviewed in issue 08/2014
KYR The Cloud of Unknowing. Songs of the Soul
Robert Kyr (b1952) represents a curious phenomenon: a composer just now achieving mainstream recognition after a long, productive creative life...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns 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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