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 first recording of a Bruckner symphony by the relatively unknown American conductor Lance Friedel is notable for not only...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2016
A jet engine revs at the start of Mothership (2010) by Mason Bates, something like a spacecraft taking off. (At...
Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 04/2016
In recent years Gil Shaham has taken up the cudgels for the music of a decade which, he would argue,...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2016
This new disc of Bach concertos has attributes we have come to expect from the Dunedin Consort and Linn, namely...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2016
Atterberg’s Third Symphony was assembled in stages between 1914 and 1916 from ideas for three seascapes/tone-poems that – after the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2016
This is the fourth disc to be devoted exclusively to the music of Julian Anderson and the second such venture...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2016
Back in the May 2005 issue of Gramophone, Bryce Morrison extolled the virtues of a Scarlatti disc by a young...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2016
Aficionados of French (or France-based) opera will warm to ‘Paris, mon amour’ by the Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva. Schooled in...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/15
In their search for the vocal stars of the future, Rosenblatt Recitals have enjoyed an impressive hit-rate. Now that the...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2016
This is a curious project. Suzi Digby and her new professional choir ORA champion today’s British choral composers as the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2016
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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