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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HANDEL 9 German Arias (Schöder)
Hot on the heels of uneven accounts of Handel’s so-called German Arias by Ina Siedlaczek (Audite) and Gillian Keith (Channel...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2017
BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis (Janowski)
The venue is the Berlin Philharmonie, the engineering teams of Pentatone and German radio familiar from many excellent recordings, but...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2017
BEDNALL Sudden Light
‘Lux’ – the opening word of the opening track on ‘Sudden Light’, Lux orta est iusto – bursts into the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2017
BARBER The Lovers THOMPSON Frostiana
In a lovely piece of programming, Ron-Dirk Entleutner and the young musicians of the Landesjugendchor Sachsen and the Jugendsinfonieorchester Leipzig...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2017
DVOŘÁK American String Quartet and Quintet
If you need a tonic, some relief from the insanity of the wider world (I write this in the wake...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2017
DEAN Dramatis Personae FRANCESCONI Hard Pace
I can’t find any evidence to corroborate the booklet note’s suggestion that Brett Dean’s trumpet concerto Dramatis personae is a...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2017
JS BACH; BEETHOVEN Fugue
Viol consort and not modern chamber orchestra appears to be the model for the first three contrapuncti of The Art...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2017
DOVE In Damascus. Piano Quintet
Signum Classics’ advocacy of the music of Jonathan Dove continues apace with this superb new chamber/vocal release, recorded in the...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2017
Late Night Lute
Waking from a troubling dream late one night, I looked to lutenist Matthew Wadsworth’s exquisite new recording for solace. It...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2017
Anna Tsybuleva: Fantasien
Piano fantasias may have started off as essentially improvisational in nature, yet the genre evolved into something less clearly defined,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2017
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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