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...
A previous Renaud Capuçon Mozart recording with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Louis Langrée (Concertos Nos 1 and 3, with...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW23
Martinů’s eccentric compositional fluency can throw even ardent admirers off the scent. Of the three works included in the present...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW23
According to Rachel Barton Pine, ‘There is perhaps no classical composer who is more beloved to metalheads than Shostakovich’. I’m...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW23
The latest volume of Giovanni Antonini’s ever-enticing Haydn cycle takes its title from Symphony No 53, L’Impériale, and couples that...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW23
During his sojourn in Paris in the late 1920s, Heitor Villa-Lobos regaled the capital’s musical circles with derring-do tales of...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW23
Hot on the heels of Victor Julien-Laferrière and David Robertson’s recent recording of Henri Dutilleux’s Tout un monde lointain …...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW23
Over quarter of a century separates Simon Rattle’s first recording of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony, made under studio conditions with the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW23
Having made waves with one of the best Mahler Sevenths of recent times (Alpha, 11/20), this latest Bartók pairing confirms...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW23
This has to be one of the most gripping and impactful recordings of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 available right now....
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: AW23
In a provocative twist, this new recording captures the results of a commissioning project initiated not by a musician but...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: AW23
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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