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...
Rebecca Miller follows up her disc of music by the American composer Henry Kimball Hadley (Dutton, 10/15) with a symphony...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2016
Braunfels’s Don Juan dates from 1924, when the composer’s reputation was riding high. Furtwängler conducted its premiere and the piece...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2016
These home-grown Hungarian recordings of the five Beethoven piano concertos come from one of the heartlands of Hungary’s never less...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2016
Such is the vitality of these performances recorded live in Vienna’s Musikverein in May 2015, it is difficult to believe...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2016
Such is the vitality of these performances recorded live in Vienna’s Musikverein in May 2015, it is difficult to believe...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2016
It’s odd that Reinhard Goebel chose to open this birthday tribute to CPE Bach with a trifling G major Sinfonia...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2016
Fans of Avison’s music sometimes regret that the 12 concertos he published in 1744, adapted from harpsichord sonatas by Domenico...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2016
Despite moves into heavier roles in recent years (Eboli, Dalila and Carmen), the Bulgarian mezzo-soprano Vesselina Kasarova is still better...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2016
There are any number of Russian operas after Prokofiev but not too many that have been staged in the West,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2016
Hot on the heels of Oehms’s excellent new Die Frau ohne Schatten (12/15), here comes another Strauss opera on (audio-only)...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley 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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