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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BAKER Piano Concerto. Aus Schwanengesang
Here are two substantial works by the Bloomington-based composer Claude Baker (b1948), whose Piano Concerto (2010), written to celebrate the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2018
The John Adams Edition
Like its politics, the buffeting turbulence of culture in the United States today is difficult to describe to anyone who...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2018
SCHUMANN Four Symphonies
Recordings of Schumann’s symphonies have recently tended towards the small-scale, with chamber orchestras and often period manners, as witness the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2017
The King's Singers: Gold
In 1967 six choral scholars from Cambridge founded a singing group and accidentally started a phenomenon. Photos of the original King’s...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2017
JS BACH Mass BWV233. Magnificat BWV243a
This is Gardiner’s second recording of the Christmas Cantata No 151, which dates from Bach’s golden period of cantata composition, two years...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2017
DEBUSSY Pelléas et Mélisande (Rattle)
This is a takeover from Berlin of a Peter Sellars platform staging of Debussy’s opera. Sellars’s directing of the cast (identical in...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2017
BERLIOZ Les Troyens (Nelson)
Hector Berlioz’s epic opera Les Troyens has been lucky on disc. Complete recordings have been few but they’ve tended to...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017
Philip Martin: Once more with feeling...
Philip Martin is a fine pianist, as anyone will attest who has in their collection his invaluable account of the complete...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2017
Cliburn Gold 2017: Yekwon Sunwoo
The Van Cliburn International Competition does not have a great history of choosing winners. The 28-year-old Yekwon Sunwoo from South Korea...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2017
Jorge Bolet
As the booklet essay reminds us, Jorge Bolet’s ascent to the top was painfully slow. Throughout the late 1940s and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2017
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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