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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DVOŘÁK Symphony No 8 STRAUSS Don Quixote
The headline act in this January 2016 Munich concert was the cellist Yo-Yo Ma as the eponymous hero of Richard...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2017
BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Thielemann)
This is the second version of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony on DVD and Blu-ray disc conducted by Christian Thielemann to appear...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2017
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Sakari Oramo’s recent Ostrobothnian CO version of Britten’s Frank Bridge Variations (Alba, 9/16) served up plenty of food for thought....
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2017
BRAHMS Piano Concertos
This is a recording made at concerts Rudolf Buchbinder gave with Zubin Mehta and the VPO in the Goldener Saal...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 02/2017
SCHOENBERG; BARTÓK Piano Concertos
For Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto to sound effective the listener must be able to feel utterly at home in the work,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017
J B BACH Overtures
How many careless shoppers, I wonder, will buy this disc thinking it contains the four Ouvertures (or Orchestral Suites) of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2017
FAGERLUND; AHO Bassoon Concertos
Sebastian Fagerlund’s violin concerto Darkness in Light mightily impressed me on disc (5/15) and his no less involving bassoon concerto...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2017
VERDELOT; GANASSI Madrigals
Like so many 16th-century instrumental tutors, Sylvestro Ganassi’s La Fontegara (1535) begins by stating that all musical instruments are inferior...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2017
Heracleitus
The latest release from the admirable English Music Festival’s in-house label is a recital of songs and chamber music by...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2017
Renée Fleming: Distant Light
The disc’s charismatic title comes from a line in the first song of The Strand Settings – evocative in its...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2017
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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