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...
‘Le Tre Soprano: The Three Ladies of Ferrara’ is much more than a musical portrait of a famous performing group,...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 04/2025
The enterprising Virginia-based cellist Juliana Soltis has unearthed little-known cello works by six American female composers. Of the six, the...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 04/2025
Having been mightily impressed with previous Arnold Rosner albums from Toccata Classics, I approached this newcomer of wind band works...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2025
Mary Kouyoumdjian has described herself as a ‘composer and documentarian’, but there is certainly more to the Armenian-American’s creative armoury...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2025
Florence’s Maggio Musicale used to be one of the great Italian opera houses. Alas no longer. The Fondazione has been...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2025
I watched this production from the temporary home of the Theater an der Wien with a mixture of bafflement and...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2025
Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel follow up their excellent recording of Grétry’s Richard Coeur-de-Lion (1/21) with this DVD of...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2025
Whenever a venerable literary property is reincarnated into another medium, one must initially ask if, why and how it speaks...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2025
Founded in 1999 and directed since then by Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris have rapidly expanded their repertory to...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 03/2025
This album is the product of a collaboration between the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and the radio station SWR to mark an...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 03/2025
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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