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...
Ehnes gives a stunning account of the Solo Sonata. The impression is that he’s simply following all Bartók’s meticulous direction...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 01/2013
In these wonderful sonatas, the majority of movements are written as three-part counterpoint – the harpsichordist’s two hands plus the...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 01/2013
More than half of this 12-track disc is taken up by four laments, three of which last around 10 minutes....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2013
Rarely do you hear, even in the rarefied world of French mélodie and German Lieder, a baritone who sings with...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 02/2013
This two-CD set is the third of a series devoted to a mid-16th-century group of six choirbooks preserved in the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2013
Robert Dow was a Londoner and an Oxford man who copied the partbooks named after him in the 1580s. It...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2013
This recorded set effectively provides a history of the classics of 20th-century Spanish song in less than 70 minutes. Like...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2013
For his Wigmore recital last February Roderick Williams devised a typically thoughtful, unclichéd programme: a clutch of songs from Wolf’s...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2013
It is difficult to look at the cover of the CD of a setting of excerpts from The Diary of...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2013
Hyperion’s complete coverage of the Richard Strauss songs (begun in Vol 1 with Christine Brewer – 6/05) has rightly received...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 02/2013
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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