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...
Allan Pettersson’s cantata Vox humana (1974) was composed in close proximity to his choral Twelfth Symphony, De döda på torget....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020
A treasure, to be sure. Four years before Bruno Walter’s celebrated, indeed classic Vienna recording (1952) with Kathleen Ferrier, the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2020
The German soprano Julia Kleiter joins Julius Drake for the sixth volume of Hyperion’s Liszt survey, which covers the years...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2020
Juris Karlsons is one of Latvia’s most distinguished composers, with an extensive output and having occupied some of the highest...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2020
Forget the glamour of Hollywood’s Rat Pack, the 16th century had a Wolf Pack of musicians whose names derive from...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2020
Richard Harvey’s album ‘Kyrie’ (2017) saw the film composer rework and rearrange several themes and cues into a choral context....
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2020
Kate Lindsey’s second solo album, like her first (9/17), takes her away from the classic lyric repertoire with which she...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2020
Peter Eötvös’s Halleluja (2015) is styled ‘oratorium balbulum’ – a stammering oratorio – and subtitled ‘Four Fragments’. The latter does...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020
It’s nearly 30 years now since John Warrack, in these pages, hailed the sudden rediscovery of a copy of this...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2020
The ghost of Richard Strauss’s Klytemnestra in Elektra hovers over the final work on the soprano Ruby Hughes’s new BIS...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2020
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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