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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BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1-5 (Ronald Brautigam)
Ronald Brautigam’s first recording of Beethoven’s piano concertos, a collaboration with Andrew Parrott and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, appeared in...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2020
BEAMISH; JOLAS; NEUWIRTH Trumpet Concertos
Sally Beamish’s Trumpet Concerto (2003) was inspired by Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Of course you would choose a trumpet – over...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2020
BARBER; TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concertos (Johan Dalene)
Gramophone has already singled out this young man as One to Watch (8/19) and from the shaping of his solo...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2020
Escales: French Orchestral Works
‘Let’s hope it’s not a one-off’, wrote Richard Bratby at the close of his review (10/19) of John Wilson’s recording...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2020
WAGNER Der fliegende Holländer (Minkowski)
If your production concept for Wagner’s ‘Romantic horror’ takes you down the reasonable route that this is a show in...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2020
VIVALDI Jupiter (Thomas Dunford)
For its mix of irrelevance and pretentiousness (‘music is the homeland of infinite possibility, freedom and sublimated time’), Alpha’s perfunctory...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2020
VERDI Le trouvère (Abbado)
This is Verdi’s Il trovatore and it is not Verdi’s Il trovatore. That’s not just because this is the 1857...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2020
STEFANI The Supposed Miracle or Cracovians and Highlanders
The Supposed Miracle, or Cracovians and Highlanders (Cud mniemany, czyli Krakowiacy i Górale) was first performed Warsaw in 1794. Its...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2020
ROSSINI Ricciardo e Zoraide (Sagripanti)
The undoubted draw of the Pesaro Rossini Opera Festival’s 2018 bicentenary revival of Ricciardo e Zoraide, the three-hour mock-heroic epic...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2020
LULLY Isis (Rousset)
Atys, the fourth tragédie en musique that Lully composed to a libretto by Philippe Quinault, was dubbed ‘the king’s opera’....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2020
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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