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...
Is Valery Gergiev unchallengeable in this repertoire? He may be at something like his best in his recent Mariinsky remakes...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2016
How many times have I regretted a shortage of fantasy, flair and fairy-tale imagination in recordings of the Prokofiev piano...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2016
This interesting collection of sacred music by Penderecki includes works from various periods of his life. The Psalms of David,...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2016
Why concert promoters and record labels have such trouble with Moszkowski I’ll never know, especially his once-celebrated orchestral music. For...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2016
Reading Erik Nilsson’s biographical summary of Amanda Maier’s short life (1853 94) and its aftermath – together with his ‘open...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2016
In the wake of Thomas Dausgaard’s remarkably cogent reading of the Deryck Cooke ‘performing version’ of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony, there...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2016
This is such a bewildering mix of the prosaic, the indifferent and the inconsistent that it is hard to know...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2016
London bus syndrome strikes: you wait over 20 years for a new recording of Khachaturian’s Second Symphony – dubbed ‘Symphony...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2016
Few of us, I suspect, will have encountered either of these Australian composers, so a brief introduction is in order....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2016
This is a moment worth savouring, because discs documenting work by the Polish composer Roman Haubenstock-Ramati (1919 94) come along...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2016
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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