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...
The premiere recording of Poul Ruders’s Fifth Symphony, completed in 2013 and premiered in 2015 by the Danish National Radio...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2017
The premiere recording of Poul Ruders’s Fifth Symphony, completed in 2013 and premiered in 2015 by the Danish National Radio...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2017
Naxos has done well by Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, with a handful of recordings of his symphonie chorégraphique in the...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2017
Born in Kennington, south London, Henry Cotter Nixon (1842-1907) studied privately with Henry Smart, Charles Steggall and George Alexander Macfarren....
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017
‘Of course Mozart loved the flute!’ declares Philippe Bernold in his booklet-notes, tackling head-on a tired and frustrated Mozart’s notorious...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017
I’m not going to beat around the bush: the reason to hear this recording – and hear it you should...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2017
Two violin concertos – Tchaikovsky’s and Édouard Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole – show very different sides of Augustin Hadelich. Recorded in...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2017
Like Clementi and Cherubini, Franz Krommer (1759-1831) was a contemporary of Mozart who outlived Beethoven and Schubert. By the time...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2017
You might have heard of František Jiránek, the Czech violinist and composer who was born in 1698 on a Czech...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 03/2017
Edward Gardner directs the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in a traversal of Holst’s The Planets that genuinely excites...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017
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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