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...
Last December Olga Neuwirth’s opera Orlando was, indefensibly, only the first full opera by a woman on the Vienna State...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 05/2020
‘The most limpid and lyrical music in existence’ was Eric Blom’s verdict on Symphony No 39 in his Master Musicians...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2020
This extremely well-filled SACD presents the heftiest of Mozart’s Salzburg serenades along with an associated march and the evergreen Musical...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020
That Serbia has produced no composer of international standing this past half century makes one wonder whether different geopolitical factors...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2020
This is a terrific disc. It is a little over 10 years since the death of Nicholas Maw (1935-2009), one...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2020
Tõnu Kõrvits is an impressively unpredictable composer. Just when you think that the very brief Azure (2016 17) is becoming...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2020
Andrew Haveron joins very select, indeed mighty company – from Heifetz to Mutter and beyond – in the Korngold Concerto....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2020
Both of the concertante works on this disc take the listener on journeys through slowly changing musical landscapes. Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2020
A product of the Royal Academy of Music, pupil of Nobuko Imai and BBC New Generation Artist, London-born Timothy Ridout...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2020
The beauty of this coupling lies with the way in which two such highly distinctive works impact upon each other....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2020
Rare and revelatory, these archival releases span a century of recording history – from the...
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
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