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...
Though still on the margins of the opera repertoire, Königskinder has well-placed friends in the opera and recording world who...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2013
The premiere of Belisario took place at La Fenice, Venice, in 1836. The libretto was by Salvadore Cammarano, with whom...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2013
Sofya Gulyak, who has won first prizes in many competitions, including both the William Kapell in Maryland and the Leeds,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2013
In the early 1960s the great Italian virtuoso Fernando Germani recorded three LPs for HMV at Selby Abbey. They became...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 12/2013
The choral music of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford has not so much remained in the repertoire of British cathedral and...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2013
Uchida and Schumann are a wonderful match: she conveys his febrile qualities with such naturalness, as was vividly demonstrated in...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2013
Cordelia Williams was winner of the keyboard final of the 2006 BBC Young Musician of the Year, a competition that,...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2013
If we agree that mastering and then recording the Paganini Caprices is the violinist’s version of climbing Everest, and acknowledge...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 12/2013
The first four Ws (Who, What, Where, When) seemed clear-cut: Christian Blackshaw plays Mozart sonatas at Wigmore Hall in 2012....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2013
Following his earlier Delphian disc of the B minor Sonata (A/07), David Wilde continues with Liszt, complementing the first Mephisto...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2013
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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