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...
The latest disc in John Neschling’s Respighi survey focuses on works in which his post-Romantic idiom and love of early...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2018
The C minor Second Concerto has left me sitting on the fence. One moment I found myself luxuriating in the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2018
For this dip into Prokofiev’s two major ballets, Stéphane Denève decides against any of the published suites but makes his...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2018
Gergiev. Matsuev. Rachmaninov. What could possibly go wrong? Well, quite a lot as it happens. This is, apparently, a live...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2018
In the same week last November that BBC Television unveiled its new adaptation of Howards End, ENO presented the premiere...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2018
Arriving simultaneously with the news that Lahav Shani is to succeed Zubin Mehta at the helm of the Israel Philharmonic,...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2018
This is a terrific account of Mahler’s fledgling symphony – full of the rashness and impetuosity of youth and the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2018
The repertoire is all Liszt. Bolet was one of the finest of all Liszt players. Liszt was the composer who,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2018
Józef Koffler (1896-1944) was an exact contemporary of Roberto Gerhard and Roger Sessions. Like them, his identity as a composer...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2018
Béla Bartók once said of his friend Zoltán Kodály that ‘his true nature is contemplative’. Did JoAnn Falletta have that...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2018
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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