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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ELISHA 'Anthelion'
One of the greatest joys of being a reviewer is encountering an unfamiliar compositional voice. Adrienne Elisha (1958-2017) was a...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022
AYLWARD Celestial Forms and Stories
The title of John Aylward’s five-movement suite, performed on a New Focus disc by members of Klangforum Wien, comes from...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2022
Nadine Sierra: Made for Opera
In the booklet note for her second solo album, Nadine Sierra waxes lyrical about how she was formed as a...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022
WEBER Der Freischütz (Netopil)
The archetypal German Romantic opera, where folkish charm collides with sinister supernatural forces, has done well on CD. In the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2022
SAINT-SAËNS Phryné (Niquet)
First performed at the Opéra-Comique in 1893, Phryné comes immediately after Saint-Saëns’s big stage works of the late 1870s and...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022
PHIBBS Juliana (Vass)
Vilified and banned though it may have been initially, Strindberg’s Miss Julie (1888) has more than made up any lost...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022
OFFENBACH Les Contes d'Hoffman (Nagano)
What do you want from Les contes d’Hoffmann? Enchantment or insight? Delirious high-Romantic fantasy or probing Jungian psychodrama? False dichotomies,...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2022
MOZART Idomeneo (Netopil)
Not since Dmitri Tcherniakov’s production of Don Giovanni (BelAir, A/13) have I seen such a wrong-headed account of a Mozart...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2022
Emőke Baráth: Dualità - Handel Opera Arias
‘Her person was coarse and masculine.’ ‘She was short and squat, with a doughy cross face.’ ‘She had so little...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2022
CASABLANCAS L'Enigma Di Lea (Pons)
The first opera to be premiered at Barcelona’s Liceu for over a decade, Benet Casablancas’s L’enigma di Lea apparently aroused...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022
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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