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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The Complete Warner Classics Edition Teldec and EMI Recordings Kurt Masur
Like so many great conductors from the past, recent or distant, over time Kurt Masur evolved his own sound, which...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2022
WORTHINGTON Passages Through Time
This is the second album Navona has devoted entirely to the music of Rain Worthington (b1949), though her works –...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2022
MATIEGKA 6 Sonates progressives pour guitare, Op 31 (David Starobin)
It is typical of David Starobin to wind up his career as a recording artist with music by a composer...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2022
DASHOW Soundings in Pure Duration, Vol 2
The heyday of electroacoustic composition, arguably from the 1950s to the 1970s when it was a vital strand of avant-garde...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2022
BROUWER Reactions: Songs and Chamber Music
Margaret Brouwer covers a lot of emotional territory in the music on her new CD, ‘Reactions’, which comprises works composed...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2022
ADLER To Speak To Our Time: Choral Works
Samuel Adler (b1928), who studied with Copland and Hindemith, taught for 63 years at the Juilliard and Eastman schools of...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2022
Rivales
This selection of airs and duets from – mostly – French operas reflects the careers of two sopranos who were...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2022
Rachel Willis-Sørensen: Rachel
The American soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen has been building an impressive international career for over a decade, as well as walking...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022
Florian Sempey: Figaro? Sì!
The album cover for Florian Sempey’s new album shows the French baritone clearly having fun accosting a Rossini bust, and...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022
PROKOFIEV The Fiery Angel (Trinks)
For many years I’ve been trying to persuade people that The Fiery Angel is Prokofiev’s best opera. The others have...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 06/2022
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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