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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KANDER Hermestänze. Solo Sonata. A Garden’s Time Piece
All three of Susan Kander’s works on this new MSR Classics release have personal ties, even beyond the fact that...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2017
DE RITIS Pop Concerto
Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s first CD devoted to Anthony Paul De Ritis (b1968) was warmly received in these pages (10/12)....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2017
BOYKAN Rites of Passage
Martin Boykan (b1931), a native of New York City, is one of the US’s most distinguished composers. A pupil of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2017
BOLCOM Piano Rags
William Bolcom has proved his compositional versatility in virtually every genre you can name. As a masterly pianist, he has...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 07/2017
Pace e Guerra
The Swiss-American countertenor Terry Wey has taken roles in a number of Baroque opera recordings, as well as some Bach...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2017
Johan Botha: Wiener Staatsoper Live
When the South African tenor Johan Botha died in September last year, the opera world lost one of its most...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2017
WAGNER Parsifal (Elder/Hallé)
Wagner’s final masterpiece has been well served on disc over the last few years, with new sets from Marek Janowski...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2017
VERDI Otello
Audiences at the Festival Castell de Peralada are evidently less concerned than many in the 21st-century opera world about how...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2017
VERDI Un ballo in maschera
In the last decade or so Covent Garden has hosted two pretty dismal passes at Verdi’s conspiracy thriller – three...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 07/2017
RAVEL L'Heure Espagnol
Smut and sophistication rub shoulders in Ravel’s wonderfully sardonic sex comedy, first performed at the Opéra-Comique in 1911. It’s a...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2017
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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