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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JS BACH A Christmas Oratorio
Philippe Herreweghe’s understated conducting helps to form a smoothly paced narrative from the six cantatas Bach designed for different consecutive...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2014
'The Lark Ascending’
On this recording, Tasmin Little, an acknowledged standard-bearer for, and specialist in, British music, gives us a feast of works...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2014
20th Century Concerto Grosso
Now approaching his 90th year, Sir Neville Marriner is still adding new material to his vast discography in collaboration with...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2014
TURNAGE From the Wreckage. Speranza
These recordings come from Turnage’s brief LSO residency early in 2013 which included the world premiere of a major five-movement...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2014
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring STOKOWSKI Bach Transcriptions
Though a devoted fan of Leopold Stokowski for more years than I can remember, the coupling of the names Stokowski...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2014
STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel. Don Quixote. Macbeth
The second volume of Roth’s survey offers two of Strauss’s finest tone-poems and one relative failure. Macbeth was the first...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 01/2014
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 8
It is almost 20 years since I reviewed a Gergiev recording of the work that can come across as Shostakovich’s...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2014
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concertos
Mstislav Rostropovich will always rule the roost in ‘his’ concertos (multiple accounts of the First remain in circulation and his...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2014
SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1-4
Trevor Harvey in these pages once described Schumann-conducting as ‘a department of conducting all on its own, needing a judgement...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2014
SAINT-SAËNS Violin Concerto No 3. Cello Concerto No 1
You almost imagine that Saint-Saëns had the Capuçon brothers in mind when he considerately added to his repertoire of solo...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris 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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