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...
The unusual trajectory of Mélodie Zhao’s recording career began with a set of Chopin Etudes, recorded when she was 13,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2016
Marrying Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with Les noces makes for a bizarre mismatch. Teodor Currentzis and his Perm orchestra MusicAeterna are...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2016
This disc is part showcase, part demonstration of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana’s own links with Richard Strauss. Five bonus...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2016
Regional French orchestras might have as much pedigree recording Sibelius as the Finns do making wine, but there aren’t any...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2016
Philippe Herreweghe’s previous excursions on disc with Schubert’s symphonies were the Ninth in 2011 and the Sixth and Eighth in...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2016
Born in 1950, Enjott Schneider taught for many years at Munich’s University of Music and Performing Arts. His sizeable output...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2016
Some of Saint-Saëns’s finest works are for the violin. One violinist in particular was the inspiration and beneficiary of these:...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2016
The first thing to say (because it is the first thing you will notice when you play this disc) is...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2016
This latest addition to Southwest Radio’s survey of Wolfgang Rihm’s orchestral music offers the chance to compare Two Other Movements,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2016
This beautifully programmed disc is in many ways let down by the work that to all intents and purposes forms...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2016
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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