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...
John Cluer published Handel’s Suites de pièces pour le clavecin in November 1720. Hyperion’s set by harpsichordist Paul Nicholson (6/95)...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014
Recorded between 2010 and 2013, the three discs that comprise this box-set open up for the listener a strange, intricate...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2014
Let’s hope that this debut recording by the prize-winning Hungarian cellist Ditta Rohmann is the first of a two-disc set....
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 05/2014
Mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená believes it is ‘impossible to draw a line between the religious and the personal’. It’s a philosophy...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2014
Twenty years ago, Anonymous 4 had the absurd courage to issue a disc entirely confined to motets in the 13th-century...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 05/2014
Two discs here drawn from the same rich fund of Danish ‘folk-like’ songs for amateur consumption and with some overlap...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2014
Having touched briefly on New World repertoire in their previous release ‘Ay Portugal’ (ABC Classics), Melbourne-based ensemble La Compañia go...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2014
Sounds Baroque follow their debut album (10/11) with another engaging snapshot of the Arcadian Academy’s Sunday afternoon ‘conversations’, magnets for...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2014
It says a lot about Iestyn Davies’s musical instincts that his second Wigmore Hall Live disc is less a solo...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2014
Estonia continues to produce a wealth of composers out of all proportion to its size and population, and Helena Tulve...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2014
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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