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 Hermes Experiment: Song
The Hermes Experiment are a vibrant, deeply musical quartet. Pwyll ap Siôn welcomed their previous album, ‘Here We Are’, as...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2022
Francesca Aspromonte: Maria and Maddalena
Soprano Francesca Aspromonte follows her fine recital of Baroque operatic prologues (8/18) with an equally enterprising ‘concept’ album devoted to...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2022
The Florentine Renaissance (The Orlando Consort)
On their new recording, The Orlando Consort collaborate with musicologist Patrick Macey on works by Dufay and Florentine music composed...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2022
SCHUBERT Winterreise (James Rutherford)
Almost six years on from the release of a handsome account of Schwanengesang (6/16), James Rutherford and Eugene Asti are...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2022
SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Iestyn Davies)
As David Patrick Stearns noted in his ‘The Musician and the Score’ interview with Iestyn Davies in the last issue,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2022
PETRIDIS Requiem For the Emperor Constantine Palaiologos. Symphony No 3. Concerto Grosso
This may sound impossibly recondite, but I have been waiting a decade for a recording of this work to appear....
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2022
PATERSON Say It To The Still World
‘A piece for electric guitar and choir’ sounds a little like one of those random combinations one might pick out...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2022
MARCELLO 'Amanti - Cantatas for Bass' (Sergio Foresti)
You can always rely on the veteran Italian baritone Sergio Foresti for interesting Baroque repertoire. And following hot on the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2022
JOSQUIN 'The Josquin Songbook - Music For Two Voices and Vihuela'
This is decidedly the oddest contribution to the Josquin year. The three performers here are beyond praise: María Cristina Kiehr...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 02/2022
HAYDN The Creation (Savall)
Haydn conceived The Creation on the grandest possible scale, as evidenced by the 200-odd performers in the 1799 public premiere....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2022
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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