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...
Erland von Koch (1910-2009) was very prolific in a composing career lasting over eight decades. A number of his works...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2016
Ludovic Morlot’s pairing of the Third and Fourth Symphonies rolls up months after Andrew Davis kicked off his Chandos cycle...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2016
No one can be sure that the G major Violin Concerto recorded here is authentic Haydn. But with the composer’s...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2016
Only 22 this year, and two or three years younger than that when these recordings were made, the American violinist...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2016
This is an enticing package. You’d have to be a fairly diehard Anglophobe not to be attracted to a new...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2016
For readers of a certain age, The Lark Ascending may be the biggest draw here. Pinchas Zukerman, long the starriest...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2016
Some of Stephen Hough’s greatest triumphs are to be found in Hyperion’s wondrous Romantic Piano Concerto series. In a sense...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2016
Vol 1 of Chandos’s ‘Comédie et Tragédie’ series contained well-known pieces by Lully, Marais and Rebel. The music here is...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2016
Born Alexander Paucker in Bucharest, Francis Chagrin (1905-1972) settled first in Paris (where he studied with Paul Dukas and Nadia...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2016
I was struck while watching this latest instalment of Christian Thielemann’s video Bruckner cycle how much camera movement there is...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2016
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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