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 face of Martin Luther stares out from the cover of this latest disc from the Choir of Clare College,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW17
William Lawes is better known for his instrumental music than for vocal music, and his brother Henry’s reputation today rests...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW17
This enjoyable recording, the first of an intended series on music in Baltic countries, presents a series of Lutheran cantatas written...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW17
This enjoyable recording, the first of an intended series on music in Baltic countries, presents a series of Lutheran cantatas written...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW17
If any Requiem is going to be suitable for performance in the 15,000-seat Hollywood Bowl, then I suppose it’s Verdi’s – famously operatic, by...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW17
It’s less than six years since the release of Florian Boesch’s first recording of Winterreise, a widely praised Onyx account...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW17
I had my problems with Bo Skovhus’s recent Schöne Müllerin (7/17), and many of the same issues, alas, blight his...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW17
The ever-increasing tenor population in the Schubert song discography reaches a peak of sorts with Ilker Arcayürek’s intelligently conceived recital, executed...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW17
Martin Palmeri is an Argentinian composer, born in 1965. His trajectory is curious from a European perspective, but not so...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW17
Feliks Nowowiejski (1877-1946) is hardly a household name these days but at the beginning of the 20th century he was considered...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW17
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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