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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Momentum: Nordic Cello Concertos
The Aurora label has done much to disseminate largely Norwegian music and this disc features three major Nordic cello concertos....
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 12/2012
Una follia di Napoli 1725
As album concepts go, this one requires explanation if the music is to be anything more than a pleasant, lightweight...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2012
Dances & Dreams
Rattle, Kissin, the Berlin Phil, New Year’s Eve: a delightful prospect – and viewable, by means of this DVD or...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2012
'Concertos'
Flute concertos gathered together can produce a certain sameness of texture (as in Vivaldi), although not perhaps in the hands...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2012
American Serenade
Carmen and Porgy and Bess are both dramatic scores full of rich pickings for any arranger for orchestra with a...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2012
WALLACE Piano Works
The bicentenary of William Vincent Wallace (1812-65) has drawn deserved attention to a neglected British composer. A new biography documents...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/2012
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 1 - 3
Like Herbert von Karajan, Valery Gergiev has recorded Tchaikovsky’s last three symphonies on so many occasions that it must be...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2012
SIBELIUS Symphony No 5 STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring
In the mid-1960s the BBC broadcast three orchestral programmes under the pessimistic title The Symphonic Twilight, which afforded the first...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2012
RAVEL Orchestral Works Vol 1
Gentle languor, as expressed in the Pavane pour une infante défunte and the nocturnal shadows in the first movement of...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2012
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2. Dances from Aleko
Early Rachmaninov meets mature Rachmaninov with the two dances and intermezzo from his student opera Aleko of 1892 and the...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2012
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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