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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MONTEVERDI Night. Stories of Lovers and Warriors
As anniversaries go, 450 isn’t much of a round number, but since it will be another quarter-century until the next...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2017
Eternal Monteverdi
It is not a new idea to place Monteverdi’s church music from sources later than the famous 1610 collection into...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2017
GRAINGER Folk Music
Folk music collections such as this are not nearly as simple to bring off as they might seem. Percy Grainger’s...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2017
FRANZ Lieder
‘My Lieder are not meant to awake the passions, but to create peace and tranquillity’, wrote Robert Franz (1815 92)...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2017
DVOŘÁK Stabat Mater
New recordings of Dvořák’s grief-riven Stabat mater (1877) come along quite regularly nowadays. Philippe Herreweghe’s refreshingly splendid 2013 disc for...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2017
DVOŘÁK The Spectre's Bride
Dvořák’s 1885 cantata for Birmingham has been praised in Gramophone for its ‘blend of horror and lyrical beauty’ (Jan Smaczny,...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2017
CAVALLI Vespero della Beata Vergine Maria
In 1675 Cavalli published a large collection of church music containing three sets of Vespers psalms and canticles, presumably the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2017
BRAHMS Die schöne Magelone. Vier ernste Gesänge
>‘I am a sucker for late-Romantic song or perhaps for histrionic fairy tales of derring-do and blushing maidens’, states baritone...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2017
BRAHMS Complete Duets and Quartets
CPO’s complete Brahms song series started as long ago as the early ’90s, and the sessions for this release –...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2017
BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis
Listeners initially disconcerted by the smooth legato of the Kyrie’s opening statements may be reassured: this is not one of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill 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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