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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La vallée des cloches
Bells and birds seem to be the subtext of Momo Kodama’s recital but her playing does not consistently ring out...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2014
BACH Chorale Preludes ARMSTRONG Fantasy on B-A-C-H
Kit Armstrong opens his solo debut for Sony with a nearly-half-hour sequence of Bach chorale preludes. The pianist basically presents...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue:
FINNISSY The History of Photography in Sound
Michael Finnissy completed The History of Photography in Sound, his thematically interlinked cycle of 11 solo piano pieces, with a...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 01/2014
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 8 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 21
Sarah Beth Briggs’s Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert recital tells us of a double commitment. First, in depth and consideration she...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2014
Orient-Occident II
Jordi Savall’s explorations of non-Western repertoires continue with this luxuriously presented collaboration between the members of Hespèrion XXI and musicians...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2014
Il cor tristo
This disc intersperses Renaissance madrigals by Bernardo Pisano and Jacques Arcadelt with the three sections of Roger Marsh’s Il cor...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2014
MACMILLAN Alpha & Omega
It’s no coincidence that the same early music groups who specialise in Renaissance polyphony are increasingly making a second study...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2014
BUXTEHUDE Opera Omnia XVII
This is the seventh volume, no less, of vocal music in Ton Koopman’s Buxtehude complete works cycle, and the fifth...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2014
TENET: UNO + ONE
Monteverdi sung by twins? You could jump to that conclusion hearing this disc of vocal duets by Tenet’s perfectly matched...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2014
Truro 125
Truro Cathedral was consecrated in 1887, and the 125th anniversary celebrations in 2012 included the commissioning of four new compositions...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 01/2014
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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