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...
Good things come to those who wait, they say, and at last – three decades on from its inauguration –...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2024
Positives first. This is a fine-sounding Mahler Third – up there with Manfred Honeck’s Pittsburgh account in the sonic stakes...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2024
Lise Illean was born in Australia but is now based in the UK. Her compositions draw on landscapes that are...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2024
Performances of Joseph Haydn’s two cello concertos always seem to be about the fast outer movements, but these recordings by...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2024
Richard Strauss once suggested that Elektra should be conducted like Mendelssohn’s ‘fairy music’. And if you’ve ever wondered what such...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2024
Smart coupling. Two more contrasting takes on Maeterlinck’s symbolist drama would be hard to imagine: the Schoenberg heated and densely...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2024
Eric Coates is a composer to whom one returns in the sure knowledge that the spirits will be lifted, the...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2024
What is at stake in Bruckner’s unfinished Ninth Symphony, writes Volker Hagedorn in an excellent booklet essay, is nothing less...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2024
The New Anton Bruckner Complete Edition includes three full versions of the composer’s Third Symphony, all of which have now...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2024
In 2015 Jonathan Biss asked five stylistically diverse composers to write concertos that respectively responded to each of Beethoven’s five....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024
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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