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...
This is a fine and enjoyable debut from yet another outstanding young pair of UK song interpreters. Rather than offering...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2022
Any new release from the superb Latvian Radio Choir under Sigvards Kļava is bound to be noteworthy and this performance...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2022
Coming of age as professional musicians in the middle of a global pandemic must be tough, but it scarcely seems...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2022
Come one, come all: come to the camp of pleasure! The year is 1790 and the setting is an elegant...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2022
Two Weimar-period cantatas are presented in their revised Leipzig versions, prepared during Bach’s first few months at the Thomaskirche. Ich...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2022
The last time I reviewed Inon Barnatan in these pages he was playing Schubert (Avie, 11/13), and most impressive it...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2022
Appearances can be deceptive. We’re told online that the Czech violinist Pavel Šporcl ‘combines a talent for classical music with...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2022
If the Oscars had an Academy Award for musical instruments, the cello’s cabinet would be chock-full of trophies by now....
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2022
Having walked out of his church job in Salzburg for the first time in August 1777, Mozart was packed off...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2022
Many of the sonatas on this two-disc set of keyboard music by Hélène de Montgeroult (1764-1836) are premiere recordings, and...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2022
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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