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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HOWELLS Missa Sabrinensis. Michael, ‘A Fanfare Setting’
‘Its proportions are modest in comparison with the Mass in B minor or the Missa solemnis’, wrote The Musical Times...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2020
COUPERIN Trois Leçons de Ténèbres GESUALDO Tenebrae Responsories (Tenebrae)
This really does look like two recordings on one disc. The works it presents are so radically different in style,...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2020
BRAHMS Songs of Loss and Betrayal (Simon Wallfisch)
The title for this album might suggest a mixed recital, picking and choosing songs along the theme from across Brahms’s...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2020
BRAHMS Ein deutsches Requiem (Paavo Järvi)
Aside from a crooked entry here and there, Paavo Järvi’s anniversary account of the German Requiem, performed a century and...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2020
BERNSTEIN Mass (Russell Davies)
Regular readers will know that I think this to be a masterpiece – perhaps Bernstein’s most significant, certainly his most...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2020
BERIO Coro. Cries of London (Version for 8 Voices)
Just what was Berio trying to achieve in the meticulous, variegated, sensitive, texture-obsessed, micro/macro-experimental masterpiece for 40 voices and 40...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2020
Chen Reiss: Immortal Beloved - Beethoven Arias
The programme alone whets the appetite. The Israeli soprano Chen Reiss and Richard Egarr have concocted an offbeat selection of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2020
Prisma Vol 3
Whereas previous instalments of Navona’s mixed-composer ‘Prisma’ series have featured multiple performers, Vol 3 features just one orchestra, the Janáček...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2020
Once Upon a Time (Skylark Vocal Ensemble)
What an alluring release this is, and not only because the music is built around two beloved fairy tales, Snow...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2020
Longing: Chamber Music of Reza Vali
This sixth album from the Iranian composer Reza Vali is dedicated to love and longing as heard through a lavishly...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2020
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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