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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TYBERG Masses
When the Jewish Austrian composer Marcel Tyberg was arrested by the Gestapo at his Italian home in 1944 it did...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2017
In the Stream of Life: Sibelius Songs
Even in the English-speaking world, where Sibelius has mostly enjoyed a high reputation, his vocal music remains undervalued. The language...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2017
Ladies Only - Love and Lament (Schubert)
This is a disc I rather wish I weren’t reviewing. There’s a fine line between artlessness and blandness in Schubert,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2017
MEYERBEER Songs Vol 2
Released some five years after the first volume, this second Naxos disc of Meyerbeer songs presents settings of poetry in...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2017
HANDEL Tu fedel? Tu costante? Italian cantatas
A prime selling point here is the premiere recording of an early version of the soprano cantata Tu fedel? Tu...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2017
GESUALDO Madrigals
Along with the Fifth Book of Madrigals issued alongside it, Gesualdo’s Sixth Book charts the culmination of his stylistic development,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2017
Christmas Cantatas
One of many useful ways in which the late Peter Williams (the final version of whose monumentum pro JSB was...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2017
DOVE For an Unknown Soldier
Jonathan Dove might be expected to come up with a pragmatic response in commemorating the First World War, and so...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2017
CHERUBINI; PLANTADE Requiems
Hervé Niquet brings together two posthumous tributes to Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette for the first time in a recording made...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 02/2017
FINZI; BAX; IRELAND Choral Music
The Anglican choral tradition is shaped and defined as much by its buildings as by its choirs. Whether it’s St...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan 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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