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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MOZART Mass in C minor (Manze)
His tercentenary and its aftermath have shown how there is so much more to Leopold Mozart than silly sound-effect symphonies...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2020
MARTINI Requiem pour Louis XVI
Bavarian-born Jean-Paul-Gilles Martini (1741-1816) settled in Paris and was promised a senior court post in 1788, just in time for...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2020
LOBO Masses, Responsories & motets (Cupertinos)
Following their Award-winning debut disc for Hyperion (1/19), Cupertinos turn their attention to Manuel Cardoso’s contemporary, Duarte Lobo, not to...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2020
KASTALSKY Requiem
Kastalsky’s Requiem was written as a response to the First World War. Its genesis was complicated and it exists in...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2020
HANDEL Samson (Alarcón)
The Dunedin Consort recently demonstrated that the unabridged first performance version of Samson (1743) is a complex masterpiece of musical...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2020
ELGAR Sea Pictures. Falstaff (Barenboim)
It’s hard on Elīna Garanča that her darkly opulent take on Sea Pictures should appear so soon after Kathryn Rudge’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2020
BEETHOVEN Die Ruinen von Athen. Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt
In the right hands, ‘incidental’ and ‘occasional’ Beethoven, even from the often-overlooked and underrated period of the early 1810s, turns...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2020
Transparent Boundaries: Songs Set to the Words of Dickinson, Whitman & Emerson
This fascinating collection focuses on the two American poets set (probably) more often than any others, Emily Dickinson and Walt...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020
MARAIS; TELEMANN Folias and Fantasias (Cavatina Duo)
The Cavatina Duo are always on the lookout for ways to expand the repertoire for flute and guitar. For their...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2020
JÄRVLEPP Concerto 2000 & Other Works
Jan Järvlepp (b1953 in Ottawa) is a Canadian composer of Finnish-Estonian parentage. The works here are direct in expression, colourfully...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020
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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