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...
Like many successful Hollywood composers, Bernard Herrmann pursued musical endeavours beyond (in his time) the celluloid. Studies at Juilliard were...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2020
Let me say right from the outset that this disc is as engaging, well performed and brightly recorded a programme...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2020
Inspired by Pablo Casals’s belief in playing Bach every day, and the conviction that Bach aspired to a sense of...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2020
Vivaldi’s pasticcio was commissioned by Verona’s Accademia Filarmonico for their recently built theatre during the 1734-35 Carnival. The manuscript score...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2020
This latest release from the annual Rossini festival in Wildbad in southern Germany is one of its more successful, and...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2020
Updating Figaro is always likely to minimise the class tensions that underlie this most humane and (potentially) poignant of musical...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2020
We already know Mlle Cloclo – or do we? Along with Lolo, Margot, Froufrou and the rest, isn’t she one...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2020
Henze was 32 in 1958 when he wrote Der Prinz von Homburg, five years into his self-imposed Italian exile and...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2020
That Cesti’s La Dori had such a varied performance history says something about the changing tastes of 17th-century opera audiences....
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 11/2020
Born in St Petersburg to Swedish parents in 1840, Ingeborg Lena Starck studied piano and composition, completing her studies with...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2020
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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