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...
Pity François Devienne, who died in the Charenton asylum of derangement brought about (according to a sympathetic pupil) ‘by the...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2017
Towards the end of the Scherzo, the camera catches a viola player giving a smile to a colleague. It’s a...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2017
Despite Ivor Bolton’s Bruckner recordings having been praised in these pages by Peter Quantrill, Richard Osborne and Edward Greenfield, the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2017
Twenty years ago, much was made of an attempt by Sir Charles Mackerras to recover a performing tradition familiar to...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2017
These recordings are the first to be made in the new 2100-seat concert hall that sits at the heart of...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2017
Emmanuel Krivine’s account of the Symphonie fantastique, sensitively filmed at the Cité de la Musique in 2014 during La Chambre...
Reviewed by David Allen in issue: 04/2017
I’ve always thought of Beethoven’s Second as the first stage on his revolutionary symphonic journey, as much a leap forwards...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2017
This is, I think, a first release from Höör Barock, the orchestra founded in 2012 to perform at the festival...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2017
Any route taken through the music of Thomas Adès sooner or later must confront the irresistible force and power of...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2017
The American Brass Quintet has gone through many changes of personnel over the decades, but the high quality of the...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg 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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