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...
In the best of Sebastian Fagerlund’s music there is plenty of interest (and importance) happening beneath a lucid surface. Structurally,...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2023
Having impressed with his pairing of Dvořák and Martinů (7/21), Victor Julien-Laferrière turns to French concertos for what proves a...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2023
At the risk of making a weak (but nevertheless apt) joke, Czerny did rather churn it out. One has to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2023
Welcome to the third volume of the music of Eric Coates from John Wilson and the BBC Philharmonic, the second...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2023
This is as fine a recorded account of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony as I’ve heard for some time, both in terms...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2023
These releases of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony offer a fascinating contrast, BIS’s recording giving us the well-known second version of the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2023
This set’s opening gambit is an account of the First Symphony that’s both gemütlich and gripping – no easy feat....
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2023
Hans Abrahamsen’s music is always divining, assimilating, shaking down – seeking the truth by returning to the same places over...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2023
Unaccompanied violin music relies for its effect on a player whose approach to the instrument treats athleticism and acute tonal...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2023
The Teatro Sant’Angelo was the principal theatre in Venice with which Vivaldi was associated, as both composer and manager. It...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2023
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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