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...
For the near future Regula Mühlemann’s diary looks to be dominated by Bach and Mozart. The forthcoming concert performances of...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2017
Can the Orpheus and Eurydice legend be dramatised without lyricism? Nowadays, in this pluralistic era where no single aesthetic reigns,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2017
The innovations of Niccolò Jommelli (1714 74) transformed mid-18th-century Italian opera just as much as Gluck’s slightly later so-called reforms,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2017
Premiered in Avignon in August 1976, then toured across six European countries for two months before selling out New York’s...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2017
'Simple but not unintelligent’ is how tenor Lawrence Brownlee describes his L’elisir d’amore character Nemorino, which summarises his approach to...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2017
Composer, pianist, conductor, concert promoter and educator Erik Chisholm never had the attention he deserved, not at home in Scotland...
Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 01/2017
Far from the monstrous doll figure of Lulus past and present, Marlis Petersen gave the Met audience a Lulu they...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017
The test of a good crossover record is surely a simple one: does its fusion of genres amplify both of...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2017
This mix of songs by pop/jazz composers who have worked with the classics, and vice versa, goes further than mere...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2017
Lisa Delan has put together an enjoyable and valuable programme here. These are songs one hears rarely, if at all;...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2017
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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