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...
Little of Giorgio Federico Ghedini’s orchestral music has appeared on disc, so Daniele Rustioni’s survey of four of his major...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2016
Appalachian Spring is most frequently heard in the 1945 concert suite for full orchestra, which omits around nine minutes of...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2016
Dario Castello has in recent years turned into one of the stars of 17th-century instrumental music, a thoroughly deserved status...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2016
Bruckner’s Second Symphony is arguably the most problematic of the canon in terms of textual matters. The critical edition published...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2016
All the post-war masters looked to Mahler for inspiration in their own ways. To Stockhausen he was a visionary, beyond...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2016
Richard Rodgers liked to tell a story about a Broadway arranger who insisted that he was at least 50 per...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016
Born to Conduct, the title of the hour-long documentary about Philippe Jordan which is included in the new set, is...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2016
Most LSO Live recordings rigorously eschew applause and include some remedial patching. This one has a different purpose, consciously intended...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2016
For most music lovers, the word Scheherazade likely conjures the plush orientalism of Rimsky-Korsakov’s orchestral tone-poem. John Adams’s Scheherazade.2 (2015)...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2016
Since its foundation in 2005 the British ensemble Voces8 has drawn glowing plaudits for the impeccable quality of its balance...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2016
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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