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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WUORINEN Haroun and the Sea of Stories
A 12-note opera – for children? Well, yes, and rather good it is, too! Charles Wuorinen, who died in March...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2021
VIVALDI Argippo (Biondi)
In 2008 the harpsichordist Ondřej Macek made a valiant attempt to reconstruct Vivaldi’s lost Argippo (Prague, 1730), itself a revision...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2021
ROSSINI Matilde di Shabran (Pérez-Sierra)
‘It was really enough, more than enough. The entire performance was like an idolatrous orgy; everyone acted there as if...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2021
KAYSER Scherz, List und Rache
In 18th-century Venice, two sweethearts plot their revenge on the miserly Doctor who has swindled them – first by pretending...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2021
DONIZETTI Il Paria (Elder)
When I interviewed Roger Parker for an article on Opera Rara in the July 2018 Gramophone he spoke enthusiastically of...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2021
BEETHOVEN Leonore BEETHOVEN Fidelio (Brown; Honeck)
The difference in title is nominal, circumstantial and a little misleading: both of these versions of Beethoven’s only opera are...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2021
PURCELL Tyrannic Love
Seventeenth-century English composers knew a thing or two about epidemics, restrictions, conflicts and the surge of cultural release that comes...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2021
Katharine Dain: Regards sur l'Infini
At the start of the global pandemic, a lot of people went into lockdown with family, many escaping the big...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2021
In Paradisum
A regular in the West End, thanks to appearances at ENO and the Royal Opera, and often heard on Hollywood...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2021
...and...
This is a delightful and quirky programme (something to be expected of Paul Hillier, of course), mixing contemporary music with...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2021
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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