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...
Mozart had Anton Stadler and Brahms had Richard Mühlfeld – clarinettists who inspired late masterpieces for their instrument. Heinrich Joseph...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2024
These days we no longer need be defensive about the Reformation, trashed by Mendelssohn himself, or the symphony-cantata Lobgesang, once...
Reviewed in issue 05/2024
Which is the most important: the journey or its destination? For Gidon Kremer, whose professional career has spanned over half...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024
Josephslegende, the first of Strauss’s two ballets, was composed to a scenario by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Anglo-German count...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2024
The obvious question is why it has taken more than 17 years for Haitink’s second recording of Shostakovich’s wartime colossus...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2024
Early in his tenure as music director of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano made some very...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2024
This is the third and best release in the ongoing Prokofiev symphony cycle from the LSO and its principal guest...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2024
A near-perfect combo of works spanning the length and breadth of Carl Nielsen’s life’s work. The tone poem Pan and...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2024
Like a sprinter lurching forwards to breast the tape, Johannes Klumpp announces that last spring he recorded the remaining symphonies...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2024
The best music effects a kind of time travel on the ear. Turn to the slow movement of the Harpsichord...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2024
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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