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...
The failure of television companies to broadcast the premiere of Britten’s War Requiem is deeply regrettable. However confused and messy...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 02/2013
Nathalie Stutzmann’s credentials as a Bach singer are well established, as genuine and unmistakable a contralto voice as we’ve heard...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2013
Works assembled for one-off occasions may not at first sound like the most gripping subject for the latest volume of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue:
Philippe Herreweghe has always meticulously hand-picked Bach cantatas (previously with both Virgin and Harmonia Mundi), resisting the completist route and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2013
In a 1939 interview, Rachmaninov confessed that stylistically he ‘felt like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2013
Following releases on Signum, the London Sinfonietta continues its in-house label with a disc of recent works – five of...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 02/2013
I doubt whether Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell and Edgard Varèse thought of themselves as ‘maverick’ any more than bananas taste...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 02/2013
Naxos is boldly stepping into the breach vacated by Chandos to give us the few remaining Weinberg symphonies yet to...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2013
The LPO label’s third disc of Mark-Anthony Turnage (the orchestra’s Composer in Residence from 2005 to 2010) may have arrived...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 02/2013
For the fifth volume of Telemann’s violin concertos, Elizabeth Wallfisch uses a different orchestra from the one on Vol 4...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce 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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