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...
It is a bold venture for the young company Stone Records to set out to record the songs of Hugo...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 01/2012
These performances of The Bells are linked by venue. When a Beatle-haired André Previn brought the LSO and Chorus to...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2012
Harry Christophers follows up his Boston recording of the C minor Mass (A/10) with Mozart’s other great unfinished sacred work,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2012
Michel Pignolet de Montéclair has often been categorised merely in terms of having come in between Lully and Rameau, but...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2012
This new coupling of the best-known masterpieces of Janácek’s last and most productive decade enters a highly competitive market, with...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2012
Whenever a new disc by Georges Aperghis arrives, I get a tingle where it counts most – no other living...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 01/2012
This richly comprehensive reissue shows Alfred Brendel in his early years as a towering Lisztian proclaiming Liszt’s genius at...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2012
‘Richard Casey performs 24 Studies in Light and Colour for solo piano, a dramatic set of physics-inspired compositions by composer...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 01/2012
Andreas Haefliger’s ‘Perspectives’ series has been a model of thoughtful and occasionally provocative programme-building. This fifth instalment leans more towards...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2012
Jonathan Biss begins Beethoven’s Op 10 No 1 Sonata’s first movement by ever so slightly elongating and slowing down phrases,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2012
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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