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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MONIUSZKO The Haunted Manor (Nowak)
This fantastic series of Moniuszko operas with period-instrument orchestras continues apace with Straszny dwór (The Haunted Manor), a four-act work...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2020
MASSENET Thaïs (Davis)
Made in tandem with concert performances in Toronto last November, Andrew Davis’s recording of Massenet’s great parable about sex and...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2020
MASCAGNI Cavalleria Rusticana (Janowski)
After recordings of Wagner, Weber and Humperdinck for Pentatone, Mascagni might seem like a bit of a detour for Marek...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2020
Samuel Mariño: Care pupille
Since Alfred Deller was ‘discovered’ by Michael Tippett in the 1940s, countertenors have tended to get higher and louder. Many...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2020
Sleeper's Prayer: Choral Music from North America
Whether or not you like the typical American choral sound, there’s no denying that it was made both by and...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2020
Cantos sagrados
‘What did you say?’, the opening phrase of James MacMillan’s Cantos sagrados abruptly demands. But the answer here is in...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2020
MAHLER Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen (Ilker Arcayürek)
The Istanbul-born, Vienna-based tenor Ilker Arcayürek’s Schubert-only debut was well received in these pages, earning an Editor’s Choice (Champs Hill,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2020
STROUSE Rags (London Cast Recording)
I have always been unreasonably fond of Charles Strouse and Stephen Schwartz’s Rags and would have given my right arm...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2020
SOMERVELL A Shropshire Lad. Maud (Roderick Williams)
Hubert Parry thought very highly of his pupil Arthur Somervell (1863-1937), singling out for approval one of his early settings...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2020
SHAW Is a Rose. The Listeners (Live)
Having first made quite an impression back in 2013 with the strikingly original Partita for 8 Voices, followed last year...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn 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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