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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BEETHOVEN Cello Sonatas and Variations
A cellist who tends towards introversion; a fortepianist who tends the other way. Put them together and something magical happens...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2014
Odes, Songs, Sonatas &
I doubt if anyone has produced a disc of 18th-century domestic music from Birmingham before, but here now is one...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2014
De Profundis: Sacred Repertoire for Male Choir
Orphei Drängar was founded in 1853 and is one of the most revered choirs in Sweden. Its repertoire is vast...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2014
SCHUBERT Der Wanderer and other songs
Florian Boesch is the kind of baritone who, once heard, makes you want to hear him in any and all...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2014
Lisa Larsson: Haydn Opera Arias
Bright and soubrettish of tone, Lisa Larsson is not, perhaps, a natural for Haydn’s great Scena di Berenice, music that...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2014
SCHUMANN Kreisleriana NØRGÅRD Grooving. Turn. Unfolding
Katrine Gislinge’s rendition of Kreisleriana is full of fantasy, poetry, and ebb and flow. So, of course, are dozens of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2014
SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht WEIGL Piano Trio
Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht is not only the illustration of an intense text but a tangible reflection of the intense period...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 03/2014
SCHENCK Le Nymphe di Rheno
In about 1696 the Dutch expert viol player Johannes Schenk (c1660-c1712) was employed at the Düsseldorf court of the viol-playing...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2014
Remember me my deir: Jacobean songs of love and loss
The album is something of a lost art in our age of digital fragmentation. ‘Remember me my deir’ is an...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2014
TELEMANN Overtures a 8
Having been warmly reviewed in these pages as recently as the November issue, Ensemble Zefiro would seem at the top...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 03/2014
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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