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...
This is an astounding recording, on account of both the repertoire selected and the quality of the singing. The choir...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW16
Ernst Krenek wrote his Reisebuch – the text as well as the music – in a few weeks in the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW16
This is the fourth Regent CD to feature music by David Bednall (b1979), one of Britain’s leading choral composers. The...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW16
That this is the fourth volume of Scarlatti sonatas by Pierre Hantaï reminds us that he is no newcomer to...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW16
Chopin is far and away the most popular among his coevals, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Liszt, and much of his music...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW16
Any quartet that wins a Grammy for a disc of Ligeti quartets gets my attention, and the Boston-based Parker Quartet...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW16
This superb new release in BIS’s series devoted to Brett Dean takes its name of the longest piece in the...
Reviewed in issue AW16
In contrast with the first instalment of Chandos’s series of Copland’s orchestral music (3/16), which focused on the popular ballets,...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW16
Were someone to ask me to suggest a disc to introduce them to the violin, I might well steer them...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW16
The booklet-note for this release makes some bold claims regarding Kent Nagano’s account of Eine Alpensinfonie with his Gothenburg orchestra....
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW16
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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