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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Victoria Sacred Works
With the year drawing to a close, at last there comes a project worthy in scope of one of the...
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MacMILLAN Miserere. Strathclyde motets. O bone Jesu
Dedicated to Harry Christophers, who directed The Sixteen in the first performance at the Flanders Festival in August 2009, Miserere...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2011
FAURÉ Requiem. Cantique de Jean Racine
This recording of the 1893 version of Fauré’s Requiem is notable for the presence of Philippe Jaroussky. Traditionally sung by...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2011
BERLIOZ Grande Messe des Morts
‘A vast and almost impossible project’, Paul McCreesh calls it in a liner note. Berlioz’s Grande Messe des morts is...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2011
Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson: A Tribute
Since Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s premature death in 2006 she has acquired an almost mythical aura, akin to that surrounding Kathleen...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2011
VIVALDI Teuzzone
Between 1718 and 1720 Vivaldi worked in Mantua, where he was appointed maestro di cappella da camera to the Habsburg...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2011
TURNAGE Anna Nicole
It seems fitting that Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Anna Nicole should reach a wider audience through this vividly filmed DVD. Like Anna...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2011
POULENC Dialogues des Carmélites
Modern production-hater and musical conservative Riccardo Muti must have thought he was in seventh heaven when he discovered a staging...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2011
JANÁČEK Jenufa
Stéphane Braunschweig’s production dates back to 1996, when it played host to a memorable series of performances at the Théâtre...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2011
Tragédiennes 3
Susan Graham says that all roads in the lyric mezzo repertoire lead to Dido in Berlioz’s magnum opus, Les Troyens....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2011
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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