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...
Sometime back in the mid-1980s I was sent a review copy of the original LP recording on which all these...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2014
The quiet contemplation of Compline – the final service of the monastic day – provides the framework for this latest...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2014
The musical reputation of Agostino Steffani (1654-1728) is spreading gradually beyond the awareness of a few scholarly cognoscenti but his...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014
For sheer vocal splendour, Jonas Kaufmann is unrivalled in Winterreise since Jon Vickers, whose controversial 1983 recording is revelatory or...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2014
Schubert is once reported to have exclaimed to a friend, ‘Do you know any cheerful music? I don’t.’ His alleged...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2014
Having applied Baroque instruments to 20th-century Latin standards in ‘Los pájaros perdidos’ (Virgin, 5/12), for her latest experiment Christina Pluhar...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2014
The comparative rarity here is the Sept Répons de Ténèbres that Poulenc wrote in 1961 to a commission from Leonard...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2014
While one might legitimately question the need for another anthology of choral music by Arvo Pärt, this recording creates the...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2014
Despite being regarded by some commentators as the work of an ‘odious opportunist’, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana remains one of...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2014
Eleni Karaindrou (b1941) is best known for her cinema scores, especially to Theo Angelopoulos’s films (5/99, 12/04, 6/09). The 17...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards 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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