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...
Unlike the Florestan Trio, who celebrated their birth with these very two Dvořák trios, the Wanderer have waited 30 years...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2017
Another month, another disc from the British composer Laurence Crane, which suggests that the concerted efforts of labels such as...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2017
In January I enthused about the first instalment of Brahms piano quartets from this Russo-German alliance. Now comes the remaining...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2017
Ingolf Turban marks 30 years of performing with the release of this recital recorded live in Munich last April. He...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2017
‘Up high it sounds nasal, and down low it grumbles’: Dvořák’s supposed comment about the solo cello came to mind...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2017
Although William Alwyn’s extensive catalogue includes three ‘official’ string quartets dating from 1953, 1975 and 1984, his relationship with the...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2017
What a brilliant idea. Taking the best of three different Orpheus operas and weaving them together into a single composite,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2017
Wagner’s second complete opera mostly switched allegiance to contemporary Italian (Donizetti, Rossini) and French (Auber, Hérold) models rather than German...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2017
The Hermaphrodite is described as a ‘chamber opera in seven parts’, but that’s only part of the story. The work...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2017
The tale of Rinaldo the Crusader knight caught in the toils of the sorceress Armida had been popular with composers...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne 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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