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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HANDEL Amadigi di Gaula (Curnyn)
Italian opera in London was still on a precarious footing when Handel staged Amadigi in May 1715. Fickle aristocratic audiences...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2022
Lisette Oropesa: French Bel Canto Arias
For her second solo album, Lisette Oropesa combines her love for both the French language and Italian music in an...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2022
CATALANI La Wally (Orozco-Estrada)
Despite the fame of the title-character’s ‘Ebben? Ne andrò lontana’, Alfredo Catalani’s La Wally remains a rarity on disc –...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2022
The Psalms (Choir of St John's College, Cambridge)
If I could take only a few forms of music to a desert island, the psalms sung to Anglican Chant...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2022
Vivaldi's Women
La Serenissma’s latest delve into the Vivaldi archives has thrown up a programme full of unfamiliar textures, all helping to...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2022
STEELANT 'Antwerp Requiem ca. 1650'
Although Philippe van Steelant (1611-70) isn’t a household name, his pedigree is hardly insignificant: a scion of a family of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2022
SILVESTROV Requiem Für Larissa (Mustonen)
This is not the first recording of Silvestrov’s Requiem, written in memory of his wife, Larissa Bondenko – it has...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2022
SCHUBERT Schwanengesang (Ian Bostridge)
Rest assured that Ian Bostridge is not nearly as wizened, and the late Lars Vogt wasn’t nearly so eagle-eyed, as...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2022
MONTEVERDI Selva Morale e Spirituale (Koetsveld)
Monteverdi’s monumental last anthology Selva morale e spirituale (Venice, 1641) contains nearly 40 different sacred and spiritual pieces. Most were...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2022
HILDEGARD 'Sacred Chants' (Grace Davidson)
Hildegard of Bingen is now by a massive margin the most often-recorded composer from the years before Byrd and Monteverdi...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2022
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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