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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O lux beata Trinitas
And so Graham Ross and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, reach the end of their musical pilgrimage through the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2018
Sandrine Piau: Chimère
As Sandrine Piau explains in a brief booklet note, this album completes a leisurely triptych that started with ‘Evocation’ a...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2018
Cantata: yet can I hear... (Bejun Mehta)
The American countertenor Bejun Mehta has one of the best voices in the business. Full, free and with real power...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2018
SVIRIDOV Canticles and Prayers. The Red Easter
This is a beautiful selection of Sviridov’s choral music. There is a subtlety to phrasing of the Latvian Radio Choir’s...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2018
STRAUSS Lieder (Maria Bengtsson)
Maria Bengtsson is an experienced soprano with many major Strauss roles on her CV, and here she brings plenty of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2018
SCHUBERT Songs Vol 4 (Bostridge)
Six months after I reviewed the third volume of Ian Bostridge’s live Schubert series from the Wigmore Hall (12/17), here’s...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2018
SCARLATTI Responsories for Holy Week: Holy Saturday
It is not certain that all the music on this disc is by Scarlatti; the manuscript that contains the nine...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2018
RACHMANINOV All-night Vigil (Bielecka)
The Rachmaninov Vigil has become one of those works, rather like Mozart’s Requiem, of which one can never have too...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2018
PURCELL Welcome Songs for King Charles II
The Sixteen cleverly mix up secular, political and sacred pieces revolving around flattering court odes that welcomed the king and...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2018
MUNDY Sacred Choral Music
Recordings entirely devoted to William Mundy don’t abound; the most recent seems to be The Sixteen’s almost 20 years ago...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2018
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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