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...
This compilation juxtaposes a selection of short choral pieces by two late Romantics, Max Reger and Rudolf Tobias, born in...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2013
This rich celebration of the early Polish Baroque features a brace of Mass settings by Bartłomiej Pe˛kiel and half a...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2013
Contrasto Armonico recorded four volumes of an aborted complete Handel cantata series for Brilliant Classics but here Marco Vitale launches...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2013
Following her fine set of the Brahms symphonies on Naxos with the LPO, Marin Alsop has here moved to Leipzig...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2013
While Bach’s oeuvre boasts only a sprinkling of solo-voice cantatas, they are among the most riveting, largely owing to the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 09/2013
A third volume of secular cantatas finds the Bach Collegium Japan celebrating red-letter days of people who would surely have...
Reviewed by Lindsay-Kemp in issue: 09/2013
Here is a disc whose eclectic references make its classification elusive. Classical, jazz, crossover, rock, big-band, world music? It has...
Reviewed in issue 09/2013
Muso’s five-disc album of performances dating from 1952 to 2010 commemorates 75 years of the Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition in...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2013
La Serenissima can be relied upon to devise clever and coherent concept albums. This one explores Vivaldi’s operas produced during...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2013
Dmitri Kitaenko’s Tchaikovsky symphony cycle continues to provoke decidedly mixed emotions within me. Admiration, certainly, for the expertly honed orchestral...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2013
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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