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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DVOŘÁK Stabat Mater
The Stabat mater – a 13th-century poem that describes in 20 verses the imagined sufferings of the Virgin Mary at...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2013
HANDEL Timotheus
This is a recording which ticks so many worthwhile boxes that it’s difficult to know where to begin. It’s a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2013
The Phoenix Rising
Stile Antico’s ‘The Phoenix Rising’ is both a celebration and a cautionary tale. It’s a celebration of the breadth and...
Reviewed in issue 09/2013
The Lost City: Lamentations Through the Ages
The lost city is Jerusalem, and it is the Lamentations of Jeremiah that provides the text of the nine pieces...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2013
R. Strauss Tone Poems
The playing of the Berlin Philharmonic on both the 1973 and 1983 sets is as glorious as ever; its virtuosity...
Reviewed in issue 1/1996
Art Nouveau: Songs by Strauss, Zemlinsky, Ravel, Respighi
No, not Angela Gheorghiu. This is her Romanian compatriot Teodora, who launched her musical career as a flautist, became a...
Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 09/2013
STANFORD Songs of the Sea VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS Songs of Travel
It makes an ideal coupling linking Stanford’s breezy settings of Henry Newbolt in Songs of the Sea and Songs of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 09/2013
SCHNEIDER Winter Morning Walks
Without reading the booklet-notes by composer Maria Schneider and soprano Dawn Upshaw, you know that life beyond tragedy is celebrated...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2013
ROTH Sometime I Sing
Specially composed for Mark Padmore and Morgan Szymanski, Alec Roth’s song-cycle My Lute and I harnesses language and music in...
Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 09/2013
RORE Missa Doulce mémoire. Missa a note negre
Cipriano de Rore is best known today as one of the finest exponents of the madrigal but his sacred output...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2013
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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