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...
Enescu’s music has been slow to achieve real recognition – at any rate outside his native Romania, though the biennial...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/2013
The 11-year-old Mozart had not long returned home from a three-year tour around Europe when he composed Part 1 of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2013
Milton’s pair of poems characterising the polarised opposites of Mirth (‘L’Allegro’) and Melancholy (‘Il Penseroso’) were identified as a subject...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2013
Few complete cycles of Ravel’s piano music include La valse and La parade. Both feature in François Dumont’s two-disc set;...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10
When, if ever, have you heard the Chopin Etudes played as pure music, given as naturally as breathing yet recreated...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2013
On the title-page to this, the only one of his own publications designated specifically for the organ, Bach dedicates its...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2016
The Dowland Project, the experimental ensemble which re-examines the performing and improvising processes inherent in early music, left Dowland behind...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW13
From the hyperactive nightingale in Pietro Torri’s opera Ismene at the start to her impatient sister as portrayed by Telemann...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW13
More than 40 years have passed since Wolfgang Sawallisch directed a well-nigh perfect realisation of this most original of Mass...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: AW13
Four years on from their award-winning recording of the Requiem (EMI, 10/09), Sir Antonio Pappano and his Roman forces have...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW13
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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