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...
Spread over two discs, this new, beautifully presented recording features the complete surviving motets by JS Bach set in the...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2023
Next year is the tercentenary of the first performance of Bach’s St John Passion on Good Friday 1724, so expect...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2023
The questionable durability of Bach recordings from the Thomanerchor Leipzig is an interesting phenomenon. While the choir has always carried...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2023
Continuum is ‘a pool of instrumentalists and singers that [director and harpsichordist Elina Albach] can rely on, and that enables...
Reviewed in issue 10/2023
Having recorded complete Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert sonata cycles, perhaps it was just a matter of time until Daniel-Ben Pienaar...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2023
Here’s a novelty: an album of solo clarinet works, written – or arranged – for a variety of instruments and...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2023
The annual disc of highlights from the previous year’s Festival of Piano Music Rarities from Husum has, as usual, arrived...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2023
Liszt’s recasting of Winterreise gets out far less often than his Schwanengesang transcriptions. To appreciate it, you first have to...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2023
Known primarily as a collaborative musician, Japanese-born London-based harpsichordist and pianist Asako Ogawa has recently been stepping up to the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2023
I have long enjoyed Bojan Čičić's exploration of lesser-known Baroque composers on Delphian such as Johann Jakob Walther (10/22), so...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 10/2023
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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