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...
Last year, the soprano Robert Invernizzi joined forces with the mighty mezzo Sonia Prina for a disc of Baroque duetti...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2014
About two-thirds of this excellent disc is devoted to music by Alfred Desenclos, about whom not much seems to be...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2014
Jacob Cooper has a simple and logical explanation for why his song-cycle Silver Threads is set for electronics and voice,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2014
A fine-sounding, sensitively paced German Requiem with good, fairly chaste choral singing and an especially impressive baritone in Thomas E...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2014
Here is a recording drawn from performances in the Herkulessaal in Munich, where Karl Richter recorded his versions in 1958...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2014
There is a natural attraction in a live performance of Bach’s choral masterpiece made in the church where he worked...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2014
These four cantatas all come from the first year of Bach’s time in Leipzig, during which he had just started...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014
In 1737 Farinelli travelled to Madrid. Once in the Spanish capital of the melancholic Bourbon King Philip V, he was...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2014
A couple of years back, Tafelmusik’s ‘Galileo Project’ (6/12) linked Baroque music with images and readings reflecting the scientific advances...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014
The name of Arthur de Greef (1862-1940) is never mentioned in discussions of the so-called Golden Age defined by the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2014
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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