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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WOLF Complete Songs Vol 9
The newest volume of Stone Records’ complete Wolf series mixes young and old, early and late. Into the second category...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2017
DE WERT Scared Motets
The Flemish-born composer Giaches de Wert (1535 96), famous for being Monteverdi’s predecessor at Mantua, is perhaps best remembered today...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2017
SULLIVAN Songs
Sullivan’s songs, like so much of his music away from his collaboration with Gilbert, have largely vanished into obscurity, so...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2017
SIBELIUS Kullervo. Finalndia KORTEKANGAS Migrations
No choir on the planet has as much experience or affinity with Kullervo as the YL Male Voice Choir and...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2017
SCHÜTZ Symphonie Sacrae I
It’s only a year or so since I welcomed Schütz’s third volume of Symphoniae sacrae from these artists alongside a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2017
SCHUBERT Winterreise
One of my musical regrets is that I never heard Fischer-Dieskau live in Winterreise. This DVD, made for German television...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017
A SCARLATTI Messa Clementina
Missa Clementina, the first of Scarlatti’s Masses dedicated to Pope Clement XI, was composed in 1705; autograph material in the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2017
PURCELL O Sing Unto the Lord
When the organist and choirmaster John Scott died in 2015, aged just 59, he left the world of church music...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2017
POULENC Mass in G. Motets
Any new recording from The Sixteen is going to be well worth hearing. It almost goes without saying that the...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2017
Marianne Beate Kielland: Whispering Mozart
Let us get one thing clear. Despite the odd title there is no whispering on this disc. The booklet promises...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2017
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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