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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JS BACH Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006
This latest two-disc recording of the monumental Bach Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas sets new standards. Performing on an 18th-century...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2013
WAGNER Arias
The ultimate curate’s egg. I have admired watching and hearing Vogt as Lohengrin and in Katharina Wagner’s important Meistersinger. Yet...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2013
TELEMANN Cantatas & Arias
Anyone attracted to early-18th-century German Baroque music beyond Bach will admire Telemann’s fertile melodiousness and exquisite craftsmanship but Dorothee Mields’s...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2013
SONDHEIM Sweeney Todd
Why are they always trying to drag Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd kicking and screaming into the opera house and concert hall?...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2013
MONTEVERDI Orfeo
Any work from the dawn of opera comes with many performance practice decisions but Orfeo, in particular, is heard within...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2013
MASSENET Le portrait de Manona
Opera Rara has for many years been promoting invaluable recordings of rare 19th-century operas but this latest issue is rather...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2013
HANDEL Giove in Argo (Jupiter in Argos)
During the 1730s Handel baked three pasticci compiled from his own compositions: Oreste (1734) and Alessandro Severo (1738) were designed...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2013
BRITTEN Owen Wingrave
>Owen Wingrave, arguably Britten’s last fully completed opera, is a masterpiece of musical scene-setting. Try the impressionistic interlude, part Berg,...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2013
Tell me the truth about love…
Half the fun in anthologies comes from seeing what has been chosen and how the programme has been sewn together....
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue:
Früh
The unique selling point of this disc is its valuable gathering together of early, and often rarely heard, songs by...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 06/2013
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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