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...
There is a treasure trove here, of information and reflection as well as music. Rowan Williams, Julian Anderson and Andrew...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2021
Here’s a peach of a recital disc, wonderfully programmed. Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton begin with the familiar – Ravel’s...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2021
Anton Schweitzer – a few years younger than Haydn and dead a few years before Mozart – was mainly active...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2021
With so much awareness afoot over repressive patriarchal cultures past and present, how can – and does – anyone record...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2021
‘A journey, starting with drinking wine with your eyes and eventually deriving sexual pleasure from hanging yourself in the night’...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2021
Paweł Łukaszewski; Ēriks Ešenvalds; Owain Park; Jaakko Mäntyjärvi; Cecilia McDowall: since Stephen Layton arrived at Trinity College Cambridge in 2007...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2021
Published in 1588, Psalmes, Sonets, & Songs was Byrd’s first English-texted collection. Some individual pieces are very well known, but...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2021
Vocal forces of just 10 singers supported by the same number of instrumentalists bring a level of intimacy that is...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2021
For all of his vast output of concertos, symphonies and oratorios, Max Bruch’s reputation stubbornly refuses to expand much beyond...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2021
The publicity for this meticulous and beautifully conceived reading of the St Matthew Passion claims Hans-Christoph Rademann’s vision as somehow...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2021
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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