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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BERG Violin Concertos (Christian Tetzlaff; James Ehnes)
Riches indeed to have not one but two accounts of the Berg Concerto. James Ehnes and Christian Tetzlaff are unquestionably...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2022
BEETHOVEN; STRAVINSKY Violin Concertos (Vilde Frang)
This is what can happen when you open the birdcage. In the Beethoven Concerto, Vilde Frang, the freest of spirits,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2022
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Noseda)
Gianandrea Noseda and Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra inaugurate their new Beethoven symphony cycle with this pair of plainspoken performances. Aside...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2022
BYRD Pslames, Songs and Sonnets of 1611
With 2023 marking the 400th anniversary of William Byrd’s death, you might be expecting a surge in recordings of his...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2022
Two Sides
This is a gripping if curiously conceived album, divided unequally between an entertaining clutch of sinfonias, concertos and trio sonatas...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2022
The Kreutzer Project (The Knights)
Anna Clyne’s quotation from Tolstoy as the inspiration for her Shorthand – ‘music is the shorthand of emotion’ – serves...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2022
TANGUY Chamber Works
Usually, contemporary composers’ works are promoted by one or two labels, but the discography of Éric Tanguy (b1968) is remarkably...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2022
MoonStrike
To say that the works on this recording are out of this world would only be partly accurate, and it’s...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2022
DANIELPOUR Twelve Études For Piano (Stefano Greco)
Richard Danielpour’s Twelve Études may not expand virtuoso boundaries to the extent that Chopin, Liszt, Godowsky and Ligeti did in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2022
MONTEVERDI Orfeo; Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria; L’incoronazione di Poppea (Gardiner)
In 2017 the trilogy of Monteverdi’s operas was toured on both sides of the Atlantic by John Eliot Gardiner and...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW22
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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