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...
In the 1770s the gloomy, mist-shrouded musings of the Gaelic bard ‘Ossian’ – later revealed as the century’s greatest literary...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2016
Before and after the turn of the 17th century, hundreds of collections of Airs sérieux et à boire were published...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2016
Václav Luks’s reconstruction of Zelenka’s Missa Divi Xaverii, edited painstakingly from the damaged autograph manuscript, has just been published by...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2016
Right from the start, this Schwanengesang has two major virtues that should come as no surprise to anyone aware of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2016
Is this set for lovers of Purcell or Britten? Or perhaps both? Now that we have ample opportunity to hear...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 06/2016
Henri Du Mont was a key figure at the court of Louis XIV. Born in Flanders in 1610, he moved...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2016
Few organists specialising in the great oeuvres of 17th- and 18th-century North Europe find such satisfying complicity between the instrument,...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2016
Last October it was announced that a copy of Telemann’s 12 fantasias for solo viola da gamba, known to have...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2016
With few exceptions, Poulenc’s piano music is so seldom programmed that hearing a representative selection almost seems a discovery. The...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2016
Less may be more but more is even better – or so Benjamin Beilman seems to think. This 26-year-old American...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 06/2016
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
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
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