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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Mascagni in Concert
Gianandrea Noseda’s latest expedition down lesser-trodden musical byways of his native country presents us with a chronologically wide-ranging orchestral programme...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2013
BINGEN 'Celestial Hierarchy'. Ordo Virtutum
The first item here is the completion and culmination of Sequentia’s heroic 30-year path towards recording the entire music of...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2013
CORNELIUS Complete Lieder Vol 1
This is an enchanting disc. Peter Cornelius is best remembered, at least in Germany, as the composer of the opera...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2013
CARON Masses and Chansons
Continuing their forays through the less well-known parts of the Renaissance repertory, The Sound and the Fury now give us...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2013
BRITTEN War Requiem
As with his previous recordings of Berlioz’s Grande Messe des morts (11/11) and Mendelssohn’s Elijah (11/12), Paul McCreesh brings together...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 10/2013
Michelangelo in Song
Legendary recording producer Walter Legge is said to have once told Maria Callas that if she didn’t tame her vibrato,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2013
Fame's Great Trumpet
David Owen Norris is best known as a pianist, both as a virtuoso soloist and as an accompanist. But here...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2013
JS BACH Cantatas Vol 54
Bach’s sacred cantata-writing was almost non-existent by the mid-1730s which is why, in this penultimate volume of Masaaki Suzuki’s steady...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2013
Daniel Behle sings JS Bach
If, as I did, you find it difficult to get on with the yapping delivery of ‘Ermuntre dich’, the first...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2013
Piers Lane Goes to Town
Very Superior Persons should skip this. The rest of us can sit back and enjoy it. Piers Lane’s booklet traces...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2013
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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