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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DOVE The Passing of the Year
The Convivium Singers are a 30-strong mixed-voice group, formed in 2009, youthfully fresh-toned and evenly balanced. They tackle Dove’s distinctive...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2012
DELIUS Songs of Sunset. 3 Songs. North Country Sketches
Delius had a lifelong devotion to Scandinavia and Scandinavian music, so it is apt that this issue should offer versions...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2012
DEBUSSY Songs Vol 2
Ranging from the early (but later revised) Verlaine settings in Fêtes galantes to the Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé of...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2012
CHILCOTT Requiem
This disc of premiere recordings of music by one of the most popular British choral composers is dominated by the...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2012
BRITTEN Songs and Proverbs of William Blake
‘This music has the power to connect the avant-garde with the lost paradise of tonality,’ said Robin Holloway once about...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2012
BRITTEN Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings FINZI Dies Natalis
It has almost become a rite of passage for English tenors to record Britten’s orchestral song-cycles. Mark Padmore has held...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 06/2012
TCHAIKOVSKY; MENDELSSOHN Violin Concertos
Ray Chen, Gramophone’s One to Watch in February 2011, played these concertos at the Menuhin Competition in 2008 (Mendelssohn) and...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 06/2012
HANDEL Saul
Saul is one of Handel’s most distinctive and greatest masterpieces. Composed only a few years before he ceased writing Italian...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2012
DEBUSSY. SZYMANOWSKI Piano Works
I thought this was going to be a disc of two halves. In fact, it is more of a continuous...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2012
Music From The Machine Age
There’s something uniquely exciting about hearing a keen young orchestra devouring difficult but exciting music whole, which is precisely what...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2012
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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