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 Madrigals Books 7 & 8
This third and final disc from Les Arts Florissants’ cycle of madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi is, in every way, a...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2017
MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night's Dream
Anyone following this Mendelssohn series from the LSO and John Eliot Gardiner will find much to enjoy here: in the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2017
MAWBY Choral Music
The English Catholic liturgy is far less well served by contemporary composers than its Anglican counterpart. Colin Mawby is a...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2017
LISZT 15 Songs (Timothy Fallon)
The American tenor Timothy Fallon first came to the attention of UK audiences when he won the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2017
HAWES Revelation. Beatitudes. Quanta Qualia
Success is a double-edged sword. Become composer-in-residence of a popular classical radio station, feted by the masses and commissioned by...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2017
DONIZETTI & MAYR Messa di Gloria and Credo
After hearing Rossini’s Stabat mater, the French writer Théophile Gautier remarked, approvingly, that Italian church music was ‘toujours en fête’....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017
DEBUSSY; FAURÉ Fêtes Galantes
The Norwegian mezzo Bettina Smith collaborates here with her compatriot, pianist Einar Røttingen, on a fine if shortish programme of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2017
CLÉRAMBAULT Motets à trois voix d’hommes et symphonies
Those steeped in the finest lineages of the French Baroque acknowledge Clérambault as a master of the keyboard and a...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2017
JS BACH St John Passion (sung in English)
For the past 45 years the benchmark recording of Bach’s St John Passion sung in English has been that conducted...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley 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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