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...
I’ll cut right to the chase. The headline event here is the premiere recording of the Cello Concerto by Enrique...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2023
A Beethoven ‘cycle’ played piecemeal over the course of 14 years, by a band of young musicians changing personnel throughout...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2023
These Beethoven concertos have waited a while to emerge, having been recorded in 2017 (No 3) and 2018 (No 4)....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2023
Andrew Arthur’s first volume of Bach harpsichord concertos with The Hanover Band got a mixed review from Mark Seow (9/22),...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2023
Manfred Honeck has been Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony since 2008, during which time they have released many discs...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2023
Returning on the subway from a 2015 concert in Brooklyn by Roomful of Teeth, Vivien Schweitzer of The New York...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2023
The fifth volume of Cecile Licad’s ‘Anthology of American Piano Music’ offers an intriguingly curated programme focusing upon dance. Amy...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2023
John Dillinger, the American gangster once proclaimed ‘Public Enemy No 1’, is as infamous as Bonnie and Clyde. His brief,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2023
'Remembrance’s flawed roughness’ is how Christopher Cerrone describes the narrative ambiguity threaded through this hour-long chamber opera. Based on Ryūnosuke...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 09/2023
John Adams’s Hallelujah Junction (1996) has had at least half a dozen recordings since the first, by Nicolas Hodges and...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2023
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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