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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SCARLATTI Dixit Dominus HANDEL Dixit Dominus
There are four extant settings of Dixit Dominus by Alessandro Scarlatti. Half are simple stile antico pieces but the Choir...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2013
HANDEL Ero e Leandro. Water Music Suite No 1
It may not look like it at first but there are three completely different orchestras on this disc. The European...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2013
BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis
If you exclude the credits and the pauses between movements, this performance lasts just short of 75 minutes, about par...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2013
JS BACH Cantatas Vol 53
There is something of a ‘genre within a genre’ when one reaches late Bach cantatas – especially those works which...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2013
POULENC; RAVEL Piano Concertos
What an enticing programme this is. I’ve long had a serious soft spot for Debussy’s youthful Fantaisie, a work in...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2013
ROUSE; IBERT Flute Concertos
Christopher Rouse’s Flute Concerto was composed as a direct response to the killing of James Bulger in Liverpool in 1993....
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2013
WIDMANN Violin Concerto. Antiphon
Jörg Widmann is 40 this year and well placed to assume the late Hans Werner Henze’s pivotal role in the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 08/2013
VILLA-LOBOS Guitar Concerto. 5 Preludes for guitar
Villa-Lobos’s Five Preludes (1940) are, alongside the Twelve Studies (1924 29; not included on this new disc), the cornerstones of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2013
STRAVINSKY Complete music for piano & orchestra
Stravinsky once described the piano as the ‘fulcrum’ of his compositional activity, presumably meaning that he used it to lever...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 08/2013
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring DEBUSSY Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Prélude à L’après-midi d’un faune, Boléro and The Rite of Spring tiptoe into existence by stealth, solo woodwinds making an...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2013
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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