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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R HANSON Thanksgiving Music
Born in Birmingham in 1948, the composer and conductor Robert Hanson held directorial posts at both Dartington College of Arts...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2013
EISLER Ernste Gesänge. Piano sonata Op 1
It is difficult to imagine a cause less fashionable than that of Hanns Eisler (1898-1962), the Schoenberg pupil who struggled...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2013
HOLST Hymn of Jesus DELIUS Sea Drift
There can be few more raptly compassionate statements in all music than Delius’s 1903 04 Whitman setting Sea Drift, and...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2013
CHARPENTIER Motets and Sacred Music
French Baroque specialist Edward Higginbottom writes eloquently about Charpentier’s neglect in the shadow of more favoured contemporaries, and it seems...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2013
JS BACH St Matthew Passion
The appetite for evolving performance practices in Bach’s St Matthew Passion appears undiminished as we have gradually shifted, over the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2013
JS BACH Christmas Oratorio
Two new Christmas Oratorio recordings in time for Christmas, and both from forces that give regular concert presentations of the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2013
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 4
The opening goes off like a cartoon alarm clock, shrill and insistent, the ensuing march more satirical, almost more Prokofiev...
Reviewed in issue 11/2013
ARNOLD Concerto for 2 Violins JENKINS Sinfonietta
This recording offers an unusual variety of British works for string orchestra played by the Chamber Ensemble of London, directed...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2013
REINECKE; NIELSEN Flute Concertos
The adjective ‘great’ in the title of this disc perhaps needs some qualification in one or two cases but without...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2013
TOMASI; PLANEL; JOLIVET Trumpet Concertos
French trumpet concerto literature was largely generated by a flamboyant generation of great indigenous soloists, led by the irrepressible Maurice...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2013
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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