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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CLEMENTI Symphonies Nos 1 - 4
Muzio Clementi did his posthumous reputation no favours by turning out reams of autopilot sonatinas for schoolroom use. Mozart’s withering...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2017
MACMILLAN Stabat Mater
In their separate but extremely effusive booklet essays, both Harry Christophers and the work’s dedicatee, John Studzinski, describe James MacMillan’s...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2017
Bologna 1666
Why ‘Bologna 1666’? Well, thankfully not because there was a fire there. But the date is a touch misleading, since...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2017
Bologna 1666
Why ‘Bologna 1666’? Well, thankfully not because there was a fire there. But the date is a touch misleading, since...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2017
Azul
The Knights, an ensemble of orchestral dimensions but flexible enough to perform repertoire drawing on a wide range of contemporary...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 05/2017
WHITLEY I Am I Say
If not an unknown quantity, Kate Whitley (b1989) is still little known on the wider UK music scene and this...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2017
WAGNER Symphony in C
Wagner’s would-be Beethovenian Symphony in C major is tolerably well known. Though a student work, the composer retained a soft...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2017
STRAUSS Don Juan. Ein Heldenleben
These two discs present two prolific but very different conductors with orchestras they each took over at the start of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2017
SHORE Mythic Gardens. Ruin & Memory
He may be best known as having written scores for the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, and those...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2017
RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3
Imagine if you’d never heard a Rachmaninov concerto in your life. Listening to this new recording of Nos 2 and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2017
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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