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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STRAUSS Elektra (Welser-Möst)
Marking the centenary of its founding by Strauss, Hofmannsthal and Max Reinhardt, last year’s Salzburg Festival went ahead with a...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2021
RAMEAU Dardanus - Tragedie Lyrique (Vashegyi)
Critics scorned the first production of Dardanus in 1739 as dramatically incoherent and reliant on absurd supernatural interventions. This probably...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2021
MONTEVERDI L'Orfeo – a tale in music (Malmberg)
On the day before the first performance of Monteverdi’s Orfeo on February 24, 1607, in the ducal palace in Mantua,...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 09/2021
GOUNOD Mireille (Minkowski)
‘My heart cannot change’, sings the heroine of Gounod’s 1864 opera. Put baldly, that is the fixed premise of this...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 09/2021
GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess (Live highlights. Alsop)
It always seems to be two steps forward, one step back for Porgy and Bess. For those present at the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2021
CORIGLIANO The Ghosts of Versailles (Colaneri)
Thirty years after its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera, The Ghosts of Versailles has come home in more than a...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2021
BEETHOVEN Fidelio (Janowski)
The vagaries forced upon recording and performing schedules by the coronavirus pandemic have sometimes produced some happy accidents. In the...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2021
Kateřina Knězikova: Phidyle
Czech soprano Kateřina KněŽíková is clearly a singer to watch. She sang the title-role in Katya Kabanova at Glyndebourne earlier...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2021
In Memoria Eterna: A Spiritual Vigil For The New Century
Much like the new Gothic Voices album (see page 66), this rolls back the years in more ways than one....
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2021
Gloria a Venezia!
Flanders and Italy – two nations bound tightly together in music, as Adrien Mabire and his Mercenaires argue in this...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2021
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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