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...
Katharina Bäuml and her stylish period wind ensemble are back. Recent recordings have been all-German affairs, but now Capella de...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2022
Three years after moving to Paris, the violinist Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville began his long association with the Concert Spirituel...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2022
Like Britten and Shostakovich a century later, Liszt tended to use fewer notes the older he got. Denouncing his early...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2022
You know immediately that this is going to be a memorable recording from the crisp clarity of the instrumental sound...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2022
This sparkling recording brings together an a cappella feast of short choral pieces composed during the past decade by the...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2022
There are few major choral works that ‘period’ directors tend to revisit in the studio as regularly as the Mass...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2022
Recordings of Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960) mostly concentrate on his larger-scale works: five symphonies, several cantatas, and orchestral works, including the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2022
Pianophiles will probably remember Can Çakmur’s exquisite Schubert-Liszt Schwanengesang along with the four Valses oubliées from just a couple of...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2022
This is potentially one of the important recordings of our time. Violinist Johnny Gandelsman presents 24 new works by American...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 08/2022
The young Norwegian pianist Oda Voltersvik has harnessed together four effectively contrasted representatives of the 20th-century Russian piano tradition. Admittedly...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2022
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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