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...
Rarely have I spent so disagreeable an hour as in listening to this excellently sung and produced new disc. Unless...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2012
This is an appealing concert that cleverly mixes the familiar with the unfamiliar and includes a well-known piece in an...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2012
I’m sorry to begin in captious vein, but here goes. Anyone buying this ‘blind’ might expect 18 different songs. Instead...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2012
Here are Charpentier’s two auditions for the Prix de Rome written in Paris in 1887 and two ‘on-site’ winner’s pieces...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2012
John Eliot Gardiner first recorded the German Requiem in 1990, one of the first discs with his then newly formed...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2012
Created last year expressly for conductor Philippe Herreweghe to explore on disc his wide-ranging musicological and interpretative interests, the PHI...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2012
Blackford’s third major choral and orchestral work will, I feel sure, be quickly added to that illustrious lineage of pacifist...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2012
The half-century volume of this most considered of Bach cantata series reaches that point, late in the journey, where only...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2012
This is Simon Trp∂eski’s first mixed recital disc since his acclaimed debut album for EMI in 2002 (8/02), the first...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2013
Sokolov first came to attention by winning the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1966, aged 16. For his final audition he...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2013
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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