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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BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3
Now this is something very special, and it marks an exciting debut for Leif Ove Andsnes on Sony after his...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2012
Love and Longing
Ravel’s Shéhérazade and the five Rückert songs by Mahler offer the more conventional pleasures on this disc but Madgalena Kožená’s...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2012
RAUTAVAARA Cello Concerto No 2. Percussion Concerto
As three works are listed on this superbly recorded new Ondine release, buyers may be surprised to learn that, in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2012
A Year at Winchester and York
These are the first two CDs in Regent’s ‘A Year at…’ series. Each disc takes a liturgical and musical journey...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 05/2012
Tune they Musicke to thy Hart
We are enjoined by this fine recital to bring nuance to distinctions between sacred and secular, and what we sometimes...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2012
A Song of Farewell: Music of Mourning & Consolation
Any disc subtitled ‘Music of Mourning & Consolation’ is not going to be a bundle of laughs. But Paul McCreesh...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2012
Los Pajaros Perdidos
‘The Lost Birds’ is how this title translates into English; couple that with its subtitle, ‘The South American Project’, and...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2012
Cesena
Right from the start this disc sets out to shake preconceptions. The sleeve information is folded within a kind of...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 05/2012
Il Canto della Sirena
‘The Song of the Siren’ runs the rubric, though the voices in this three-disc set of Neapolitan Baroque songs and...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2012
Being Beauteous
Anybody who has heard Anu Komsi in Saariaho’s remarkable Leino Songs, or other works written for her, will want to...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 05/2012
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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