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 disc marks a double celebration: 40 years since the foundation of the Orchestre National de Lille and a half-century...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2016
This is the second volume of Hyperion’s Classical Piano Concerto series, one that was launched with Howard Shelley leading the...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2016
I doubt Hannu Lintu’s Sibelius would sound the way it does here had the conductor not been so deeply involved...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2016
I like the idea of a CD where top billing passes from one star soloist to another. And I like...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2016
The variably transliterated Dmitri Kitaenko, who recorded The Bells for Chandos in the 1990s (2/92), has recently completed a more...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2016
It’s the Shostakovich effect all over again. You might feel that what we need now are good modern recordings of...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue:
The Thirteenth Symphony (1976) is the largest of Pettersson’s later symphonies, second only in size to No 9, completed just...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2016
To Mendelssohn Thomas Dausgaard brings the qualities that have distinguished his cycles of Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, notably a spring...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2016
The competition is formidable – that’s why it was sensible to find room for Blumine. Whether you choose to experience...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2016
With the notable exceptions of Immerseel/Anima Eterna, Roth/Les Siècles and Rohrer/Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, the original-instrument crowd has largely avoided...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2016
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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