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...
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SIBELIUS Orchestral Songs (Marianne Beate Kielland)
As winter creeps in, you could do worse than seek synergy and solace in the amassed depressions, longings and forebodings...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2022
SCHUBERT; SCHUMANN; WEBER 'Mein Traum' (Stéphane Degout)
Schubert scholars have had a field day interpreting his strange 1822 tale of death, exile and reconciliation, titled ‘Mein Traum’...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2022
ROSSINI Messa di Gloria (Pappano)
Rossini’s Messa di Gloria, commissioned for performance on the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows in Naples in March 1820,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2022
RACHMANINOV 'Nocturne' Vespers. Byzantine Hymns
There is absolutely no justification for this recording except for the fact that it works so well. That is to...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2022
PEDERSØN Pratum Spirituale - Motets & Hymns
Little survives of the work of Mogens Pedersøn, one of the most prominent Danish musicians of the early Baroque period;...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2022
PÄRT Stabat Mater & Other Works
To deal first with the purely instrumental works on this collection, both Fratres and Spiegel im Spiegel are given superbly...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2022
ŁUKASZEWSKI Sacred Choral Works (Sirmais)
Confession time: I admit to having not previously heard a note of this Polish composer before, despite the fact that...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2022
LEONARDA A Portrait of Isabella Leonarda
Anna Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704) entered an Ursuline convent in the Piedmontese city of Novara at the age of 16 and...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2022
HANDEL Theodora (Emelyanychev)
‘The generality of the world have ears and hear not’, wrote Handel’s friend Mary Delany of the failure of Theodora...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2022
HANDEL 'Sweet Stillness' Nine German Arias
The Nine German Arias occupy a special niche in Handel’s wide and wondrous output. With texts by Barthold Heinrich Brockes...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2022
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Myra Hess: a national treasure revisited in Jessica Duchen’s biography
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Mahler in miniature: Stephen Downes delivers a witty, wry portrait for the Critical Lives series
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Michel Béroff at 75: Erato's monumental box-set celebrates a brilliant and versatile pianist
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
Fell Audio debuts with British-made hi-fi duo offering style, substance, and value
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
New box-sets: Beethoven from Barenboim, Arrau and Klemperer, plus Irmgard Seefried Edition
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
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