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...
Władysław Z˙elen´ski’s overture In the Tatras (1870) is still a popular concert item in Poland and Aleksander Zarzycki’s Mazurka in...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:
This 52nd volume in Naïve’s intended complete survey of the manuscripts of Vivaldi’s music held in Turin’s National University Library...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue:
These concertos all date from the latter part of Vivaldi’s career and include several really fine works: RV281, with its...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 06/2013
Bulgarian-born and resident in London for the past two decades, Dobrinka Tabakova (b1980) brings together several of the facets that...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 06/2013
When he heard Herbert von Karajan’s 1963 Rite of Spring with the Berlin Philharmonic, Stravinsky – who made several offish...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2013
Vasily Petrenko’s Shostakovich cycle continues to garner critical plaudits and no one collecting the series need feel short-changed by this...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2013
Emmanuelle Bertrand is nothing if not a gutsy player. The close-up recording captures her every breath and every rasp of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2013
Best here is the sequence from The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, which is generally well played, especially...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2013
No doubt critics have been sharpening their pens in anticipation of Valentina Lisitsa’s Rachmaninov concerto cycle, which is bound to...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2013
Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony may or may not be his finest orchestral work but its unique instrumental texture and curious, elusive...
Reviewed by David Gutman 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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