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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LEONCAVALLO Pagliacci (Galli)
It might seem strange that, six months after releasing a Cavalleria rusticana from Florence’s Maggio Musicale (10/19), Dynamic should be...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2020
GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess (Robertson)
As a souvenir of a great night in the theatre this attractively designed own-label Metropolitan Opera release merits a warm...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2020
HANDEL Music for the Carmelite Vespers
This problematically titled album explores numerous composers who participated in the annual feast of the Madonna del Carmine (July 16)...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2020
Les plaisirs du Louvre
The pleasures here are not concerned with the pictures and sculpture of the present-day museum but with musical activity in...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2020
STRADELLA San Giovanni Battista
San Giovanni Battista was composed in 1675 for performance in the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini in Rome. Although...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2020
SCHUBERT Schwanengesang BEETHOVEN An die ferne Geliebte (Roderick Williams)
While recently hearing Matthias Goerne’s deadly serious Beethoven Lieder disc (DG, 4/20), I kept thinking that what this music really...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2020
RACHMANINOV Songs (Julia Sitkovetsky)
Think Rachmaninov romances and one thinks of sighing poets, unrequited love and plenty of Russian doom and gloom, usually sung...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2020
PÄRT Stabat Mater (Ross)
This is a focused and absorbing programme, splicing choral works by Pärt with Vasks’s Plainscapes and MacMillan’s Magnificat. It finds...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2020
The Hours: Choral Music by Ben Parry
As a former Swingle Singer and currently artistic director and principal conductor of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2020
LEWANDOWSKI 18 Liturgical Psalms
Unfamiliar as I was with the music of Louis Lewandowski (1821 94), the first name that came to mind on...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2020
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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