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...
The last piece by John Luther Adams that came my way for review was his fourth string quartet, Everything That...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2022
Booklet notes that begin ‘According to Wikipedia’, in my book, are not a great first sign. Neither is an album...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2022
This intriguing album is a showcase for what Brazilian composers during the course of the 19th century could achieve after...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2022
Charlie Parker’s Ornithology on the treble recorder? Surely not. But yes, this is exactly how Dutch recorder supremo Lucie Horsch...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2022
I thought this would be a nil nisi bonum appreciation of a sorely missed artist who commanded wide respect among...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2022
Few nations venerate cinema like the French. Think of François Truffaut’s admiration of the films of Hitchcock or his love...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2022
Few composers’ lives were more affected by the geopolitics of the 20th century than that of Isang Yun. Born in...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2022
The English Symphony Orchestra and Kenneth Woods’s ‘21st Century Symphony Project’ goes from strength to strength: Philip Sawyers’s Third (10/17;...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2022
We’ve reached the penultimate volume in Martyn Brabbins’s stimulating RVW symphony cycle for Hyperion. Proceedings are launched with a scrupulously...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2022
Noseda’s account of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth doesn’t put a foot wrong but leaves one wanting so much more. I could leave...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2022
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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