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...
The St Thomas Choir of Men & Boys take John Rutter’s edition of Fauré’s 1893 score as the basis for...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2016
This fascinating disc finds Javier Perianes and flamenco singer Estrella Morente shedding new light on the influence of Spanish folksong...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2016
The Christmas Oratorio has proved strangely resistant to the theories of recent decades concerning Bach’s performing forces. The only previous...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2016
There must be others but I have only ever come across one release with these four sets of studies: an...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2016
May 1, 2016, will probably go down as a red-letter day in the affairs of Røros, the remote former copper-mining...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2016
Nearly 20 years after Ian Bostridge made his recording debut with a delicate, rhapsodic collection of English song (‘The English...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2016
Just a year after Hyperion released its Gramophone Award-winning recording of Gurrelieder, here comes another, from another British label. And...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2016
The first thing you notice about this remarkable recording is the unusual warmth and tonal vibrancy of the harpsichord, built...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2016
Dive straight in with Henri Büsser’s Appassionato. It leaps right out at you, Lawrence Power’s viola sweeping exuberantly upwards over...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2016
Another ‘Rach 2’ dropping on to the doormat makes the heart rather sink. Except…the pianist is the wonderfully gifted Alexandre...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2016
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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