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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BRUCH Symphonies Nos 1-3 (Trevino)
Poor old Max Bruch: a composer born to spin long lyrical melodies in a culture that demanded that its symphonists...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2020
BEETHOVEN Symphonies (Trevino)
Recorded live, it says on the back of the box, and you can tell: not by the concluding applause, which...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2020
ADÈS In Seven Days (Kirill Gerstein)
In Seven Days is the serious piano-and-orchestra work to Adès’s more display-orientated Piano Concerto (DG, 5/20), in which sense it...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2020
DALLAPICCOLA Il Prigioniero (Noseda)
Gianandrea Noseda’s powerhouse recording of Il prigioniero marks his return to Dallapiccola’s music after a gap of 10 years. An...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2020
Karina Gauvin: Nuits Blanches
It was in 2014 that Cecilia Bartoli donned her faux fur hat and headed to St Petersburg to unearth Baroque...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2020
Aleksandra Kurzak: Desire
For her first solo album in seven years, Aleksandra Kurzak makes a move into some unexpected repertoire. Her previous album...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2020
Sarah Traubel: Arias for Josepha
‘A lazy, coarse, shifty character, cunning as a fox’ was Mozart’s crisp verdict on Josepha Weber in a letter to...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2020
Franco Fagioli: Veni, Vidi, Vinci
Contrary to the chronic pun, Vinci neither composed an opera about Julius Caesar nor conquered Britain – although some of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2020
TELEMANN Miriways (Labadie)
In all but name, Miriways is a German-language opera seria, with a happy ending after the characters have confronted –...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2020
STRAUSS Die Frau ohne Schatten (Thielemann)
The Vienna State Opera’s centenary production of Die Frau ohne Schatten last year was inevitably one of the hottest tickets...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2020
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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