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...
By the fourth volume of a series delving into the forgotten repertoire of 16th-century Poland, you might expect The Sixteen...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2016
There is much to be celebrated here as early music scholarship inspires joyful performances from the Choir of Gonville &...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2016
There’s nothing icthyological, or even marine, about the contents, so the title ‘Bouillabaisse’ is a puzzle; the name of the...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2016
This marks the debut recording of the Tulipa Consort, founded by the experienced Dutch soprano Johanette Zomer, whose discography has...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2016
Along with most of his other narrative works, Schütz’s three Passion settings date from the last decade of his life....
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2016
‘Slow and soft’ were dominant epithets in David Patrick Stearns’s review of Florian Boesch’s earlier Schubert recital (Hyperion, 3/14). In...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2016
‘Possibly of Irish origin’, says Grove, but the booklet-note states firmly that Henry Madin (1698-1748) was the son of a...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2016
In this third instalment of the series, The Orlando Consort present a kind of minimalist Machaut. Most of the songs...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2016
Jehan de Lescurel’s known songs are all in a single manuscript from the second decade of the 14th century, and...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2016
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s scribbles on his order of service reveal that the music did not go smoothly during the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2016
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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