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...
Bernard Herrmann became completely obsessed with his opera Wuthering Heights, convinced that it was the work by which posterity would...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2023
Carl Heinrich Graun owes his career to patron Frederick the Great, whose passion for music in general (and Italian opera...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2023
Famously bought cheaply at auction as part of a job lot by a Belgian art dealer who thought only a...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2023
Although orchestras were not foreign phenomena to chapels and cathedrals – they were de rigueur in Charles II’s Chapel Royal...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2023
In his sermon at St Paul’s Cathedral on the occasion of the United Guilds’ Service of the City of London...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2023
‘“Because” reflects our wish to give this powerful repertoire [of African American songs] a new interpretation,’ write the two artists,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2023
There are perhaps two discoveries here. I say ‘perhaps’, because both things are already known. Jheronimus Vinders is one of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2023
For all that this album takes its title from – and, as the booklet states unequivocally, ‘centres on’ – Ian...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2023
For Line Tjørnhøj, the human voice is a rare expression of truth in our bewildering deepfake world. Tjørnhøj’s multimedia vocal...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 08/2023
I can’t think of many song discs that have left me with such ambivalent feelings as this. Live and on...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore 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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