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...
If you are going to play Mozart’s fragile childhood sonatas ‘for keyboard with violin accompaniment’ on modern instruments – always...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017
Is it a British thing? Confronted with composers who write fresh, communicative music, rooted but not trapped in tradition, we…well,...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2017
François-Xavier Roth’s Strauss series with his SWR orchestra has been garnering glowing reviews in these pages. This new instalment emphatically...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2017
Scholars speculate that some or all of Bach’s extant orchestral suites originated many years before their earliest surviving Leipzig sources....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2017
As has often been the case since his Bach Pilgrimage of 2000, the John Eliot Gardiner of this new, second...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2017
I confess my eyes lit up at the sight of this release from Leila Schayegh, the Swiss violinist whose version...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2017
Just when you thought there might be a break in these pages from 2016’s steady flow of recordings marking Telemann’s...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2017
Tobias Feldmann and Boris Kusnezow make their debut on Alpha with this unusually titled disc which, the 25-year-old German violinist...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2017
LAWO continues its series devoted to the chamber music of Ketil Hvoslef (Vol 1 was reviewed in 4/15) with this...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2017
The success of the Heath Quartet’s Gramophone Award-winning Tippett cycle spotlit the tip of the iceberg of a huge body...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2017
Rare and revelatory, these archival releases span a century of recording history – from the...
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
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