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...
Is it too soon to call a work ‘classic Crane’? Well, I’m going to go ahead and say that Natural...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 07/2023
The music of Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944) is well known in the Orthodox choral world but far less well outside it....
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2023
Complete recorded collections of Bruckner’s motets are not as common as one might expect. For a start they require a...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2023
French guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre, here making his DG debut in fine style, says ‘Visages baroques’ refers to the ‘different qualities’...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2023
Concept albums are well and good when the concept is sufficiently poetic, provocative or enigmatic to intrigue or encourage rather...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2023
It is a decade since Piers Lane last went to town (10/13) and his latest visit there was completed only...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2023
If not a debut, this release introduces Daniela Roma to a wider listenership with its judicious overview of Scriabin’s 1890s...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2023
'Going all over the place, yet going nowhere.’ No, that’s not an obscure Bob Dylan lyric but rather my reaction...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2023
Another month, another Mozart sonata cycle, or so it seems. Following on from Mao Fujita’s largely impressive cycle, here’s one...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2023
Dipping into and across veteran Japanese lutenist Toyohiko Satoh’s recorded catalogue, you can’t help but think that for him the...
Reviewed by William Yeoman 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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