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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BRAHMS Symphony No 3 DEBUSSY La Mer
With all of the recordings of the Brahms and Debussy pieces, might the main attraction here be Janet Baker? No....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2014
BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique
Berlioz’s symphonic summit between Dionysus and Apollo has always posed its interpreters problems. Even in the face of much formidable...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2014
MOZART Piano Concerto No 24 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 3
Even if the catalogue was in a less parlous state than it currently is where recordings of Beethoven’s Third Piano...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2014
ENESCU Symphonie Concertante BARTÓK Divertimento
If there’s one significant composer who needs a little help from his friends, it’s George Enescu. And by ‘friends’ I...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2014
JS BACH Violin Concertos BWV1041 & 4102 VASKS Violin Concerto
The name of Renaud Capuçon is not the first that would spring to mind when searching for recordings of Bach’s...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2014
JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos
The Brandenburgs are billed here as music ‘open as ever to new historically informed interpretations, as this set demonstrates’, so...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2014
ANDREAE Symphony. Li-Tai-Pe. Concertino for Oboe
This Guild series devoted to the Swiss conductor-composer Volkmar Andreae (1879-1962) is proving so comprehensive that it’s not always easy...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2014
LYAPUNOV Piano Works
The young Belgian pianist Florian Noack devotes Volume 1 of what promises to be the complete solo piano music of...
Reviewed in issue 03/2014
Wolfgang Holzmair: Wunderhornlieder
Early in the 19th century Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano assembled the Knaben Wunderhorn collection of German folk poems,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2014
Music for Passiontide
Clare College Choir’s recording of music for Passiontide, interspersed with the plainchant Stabat mater dolorosa text, is not only a...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2014
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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