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...
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LIGETI Concertos and Chamber Music (Bleuse)
In the year of his centenary and with its own half-century fast approaching, it made sense for Ensemble Intercontemporain to...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2024
LACHENMANN My Melodies
Lachenmann’s title is a playful tease in the spirit of the toy frogs who pop up in his 1983 ensemble...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2024
HOWARD Orchestral Works (Seal)
There has not previously been a release devoted to Dani Howard (b1993). Fluent across the broad range of genres (witness...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2024
HAYDN 'Haydn 2032, Vol 15: La Reine' (Antonini)
Queens and empresses are the linking factor in this latest addition to Giovanni Antonini’s Haydn cycle. Some connections, though, are...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2024
GORDON 'The Impermanence of Things'
Now in his early 60s, British composer Michael Zev Gordon shares with his near-contemporaries George Benjamin and Julian Anderson an...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2024
ELFMAN Percussion Concerto. Wunderkammer (Colin Currie)
Danny Elfman’s concerto for orchestra Wunderkammer was written for the National Youth Orchestra and clearly designed to stretch and stimulate...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2024
DVOŘÁK; SCHUMANN; SCHREKER 'Eastbound'
Older readers may associate the Lucerne Festival Strings with Wolfgang Schneiderhan and Rudolf Baumgartner but under Australian-born Daniel Dodds the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2024
BRUCKNER Symphony Nos 1 & 7 (Poschner)
The latest releases in Capriccio’s cycle of the Bruckner symphonies feature a new edition of the Seventh Symphony by Paul...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2024
BRONSART; HENSELT Piano Concertos (Paul Wee)
The Henselt Concerto has been recorded only three times previously, remarkable when you consider it was an almost de rigueur...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2024
BRITTEN Spring Symphony. Sinfonia da Requiem. The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (Rattle)
For all his skill as an operatic composer and word-setter, Britten was not a natural symphonist. The two larger works...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2024
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Myra Hess: a national treasure revisited in Jessica Duchen’s biography
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Mahler in miniature: Stephen Downes delivers a witty, wry portrait for the Critical Lives series
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Michel Béroff at 75: Erato's monumental box-set celebrates a brilliant and versatile pianist
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
Fell Audio debuts with British-made hi-fi duo offering style, substance, and value
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
New box-sets: Beethoven from Barenboim, Arrau and Klemperer, plus Irmgard Seefried Edition
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
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