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...
Recorded live at the Wigmore Hall earlier this year, this disc marks the first collaboration on record between Dorothea Röschmann...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2015
According to Delphian’s website, this is the first volume of a projected series of Schubert songs featuring different singers. Ailish...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2015
‘I am not striving to recreate a complete and authentic 17th-century Vespers service…Rather, my primary goal was to create a...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2015
Here is the first of three volumes from Somm which will embrace all 12 sets of Parry’s English Lyrics –...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2015
If Bruno Maderna’s modernist page-turners – works such as Quadrivium, Biogramma and his Piano Concerto – is the Maderna that...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 12/2015
To Haydn’s radiant vision of prelapsarian innocence, Philippe Herreweghe brings his trademark refinement and subtlety, balancing reverence and a sense...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2015
Julia Lezhneva performs nine arias and a Marian hymn all composed during Handel’s extended trip to Italy between late 1706...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2015
From 1585 Giovanni Gabrieli was organist at St Mark’s Basilica and also director of music for the confraternity at the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2015
This is a recording unique unto itself, so comparisons with the dozens of other interpretations of Fauré’s songs already available...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2015
In 1981 Menotti told me that he disapproved of Barber’s transcription of the famous Adagio into a choral piece and...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/2015
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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