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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Sacred Treasures of England
The London Oratory Schola Cantorum Boys Choir sing weekly in the generous acoustic of the Brompton Oratory and the music...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 06/2017
Rímur: Chants, hymns, folk songs and improvisations
We will never know, write Trio Mediaeval in the booklet, what the innumerable ancient songs and tunes of the first...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2017
A New Heaven
The Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford, sing with tonal warmth, excellent tuning, impressive blend and without the clipped, prissy...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2017
Decades: A Century of Song Vol 2
Launched by Malcolm Martineau with a splendid percussive vigour, the equestrian night ride of ‘Auf der Brücke’ makes an invigorating...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2017
WALTON Façade
Listeners to BBC Radio 4 will already be familiar with Carole Boyd (aka Lynda Snell in The Archers) and Zeb...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2017
VERDI Requiem
Verdi’s Requiem launched the LSO’s 2016 17 Barbican season last September in performances that, by all accounts, were high-voltage occasions....
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2017
VECCHI Requiem
While not exactly a revelation (given its audible debt to Ensemble Organum), Graindelavoix’s recent recording of Machaut’s Mass was vocally...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2017
SCHUMANN Einsamkeit
There’s a certain overlap between this new Schumann disc from Matthias Goerne and one he recorded in the early 2000s...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2017
Dessay Sings Schubert
Having admired Natalie Dessay in operatic repertoire ranging from Handel to Massenet and Strauss, I’m sorry not to be more...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2017
SCARLATTI St John Passion
Scholars used to think that Scarlatti’s St John Passion was a very early work influenced by two similar settings by...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2017
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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