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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Entrez, le Diable!
It’s almost unfathomable that a cello could provoke a scandal, but this appears to have been in the case in the 1730s...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2017
Alma española
Isabel Leonard and Sharon Isbin illuminate Spanish art songs in orbit around Lorca and Falla by mixing popular favourites and surprising discoveries...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2017
Dark Queen Mantra
As Pwyll ap Siôn noted in his 80th-birthday feature on the composer (A/15), there is more to Terry Riley than...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2017
LAITMAN The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter has inspired several operas, including rarely performed versions with music by Walter Damrosch, Fredric Kroll...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2017
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Bernard)
The catalogue is bursting with recordings of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony that are undeniably flawed yet nevertheless contain enough points of...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2017
JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Chih-Long Hu)
Bach’s Goldberg Variations abounds in world-class piano recordings, including several memorable recent versions covered by yours truly in these pages. That...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2017
ARGENTO The Andrée Expedition. From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
Naxos’s policy of devoting single discs to single composers has methodically expanded the repertoire and given important young performers like Brian Mulligan and Timothy...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2017
AGÓCS The Debrecen Passion
The music of Kati Agócs on the Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s new recording shimmers and seethes, reflecting the tensions that the...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2017
Jonas Kaufmann: L’Opéra
A dapper Jonas Kaufmann smoulders in the auditorium of the exquisite Palais Garnier, beneath Marc Chagall’s celebrated ceiling paintings, on...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2017
Angela Gheorghiu: Eternamente
‘I want to be remembered eternally through my voice’, Angela Gheorghiu remarks in the publicity material for her first studio recording in...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 10/2017
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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