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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James Gilchrist: One Hundred Years of British Song vol 3
The opening moments of this collection land you in a collision of disparate stimuli. The opening bars of the first...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2022
Ombres: Women Composers of La Belle Époque
Time and again, one’s ears search for something subversive, some sort of coded protest in the music of these often-forgotten...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2022
Ice Land: The Eternal Music
Graham Ross isn’t the first musician to have got Iceland under his skin – a process that, for many of...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2022
Barbara Hannigan: Dance with Me
The idea for this recording took shape following a concert the Ludwig Orchestra gave in Birmingham when Peppie Wiersma, the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2022
Cachua Serranita
The Jesuit mission to Latin America during the 17th and 18th centuries left a spiritual legacy, but also a musical...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2022
TELEMANN Complete Cantatas Vol 1
To CPO’s already generous Telemann catalogue we can now add this first volume in what will be the first complete...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2022
SUCKLING The Tuning
Earlier releases of Martin Suckling – his song-cycle Candlebird (London Sinfonietta, 2/13) or the NMC ‘portrait’ centred on his Piano...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2022
STRAUSS Five Songs. Salome (Jessye Norman)
The central work in this Strauss programme, captured live at the Royal Festival Hall in good sound in 1986, is...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2022
RACHMANINOV Dissonance (Asmik Grigorian)
After triumphs on stage in Salzburg (Salome) and Madrid (Rusalka) that have already made it to DVD and Blu ray,...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2022
PURCELL Odes & Welcome Songs
The British monarchy is enjoying an unexpected revival – on disc, at least. Scarcely a year after The King’s Consort’s...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan 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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