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 October 2015 Ondine’s founder, Reijo Kiilunen – in conversation with Andrew Mellor – singled out Lotta Wennäkoski (b1970) as...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023
Martyn Brabbins rounds off his Vaughan Williams symphony cycle for Hyperion with a most impressive account of the Ninth. His...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2023
So this is the Stravinsky Violin Concerto I have so often seen on the page but rarely heard in performance....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2023
It doesn’t at all surprise me that Scriabin once thought of calling his Poem of Ecstasy ‘Poème orgiaque’ or ‘Orgiastic...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2023
Over a concentrated few days in May 2004, Valery Gergiev conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in an incendiary Prokofiev symphony...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2023
If Italian new music seems a rather less adventurous place now than in previous decades, the emergence of composers such...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2023
MultiPiano Ensemble’s new album features new arrangements of works by Martin and Shostakovich approved by the composers’ families as well...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2023
The astonishing Frank Dupree here continues his Kapustin odyssey with the fifth of the composer’s six piano concertos, and two...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023
Johannes Klumpp continues sweeping up the remaining early symphonies in the Haydn cycle inaugurated by Thomas Fey almost a quarter...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2023
Ravenna-based Accademia Bizantina and harpsichordist Ottavio Dantone have never been monogamous with record companies – their prolific discography has been...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2023
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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