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...
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Brazilian Adventure
Jeffrey Skidmore is not the first musician to be charmed by the cultural riches and musical heritage of Brazil, and...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2015
Anne Boleyn’s Songbook
The manuscript concerned – MS1070 in the Royal College of Music – contains 42 pieces, all but three of them...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2015
TAVERNER Missa Corona spinea
This is one for those who have fixed views on the speed of 16th-century music: the marvellous 1989 recording of...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2015
STRADELLA San Giovanni Cristostomo
A vast amount of interesting music by Alessandro Stradella (1639-82) remains unpublished, scarcely performed and unrecorded, but times could be...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2015
Mozart and the Weber Sisters
‘A Mozartian hotch-potch’ was my uncharitable first reaction when I glanced through the contents of this disc. Eating humble pie,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2015
MEINARDUS Luther in Worms
When Wagner remarked of Carl Loewe in 1875 that ‘there is a serious German master’, he was more likely thinking...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2015
LASSUS Prophetiae sybillarum
Of Lassus’s larger-scale cycles, the Prophetiae sybillarum is among the trickier ones to bring off. It sits in a limbo...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2015
HEGGIE The moon’s a gong, hung in the wild
By his own admission, Jake Heggie is a theatre composer who can make a drama of a song text, a...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2015
GOMBERT Motets
Nicolas Gombert (c1495-1560) was a significant composer of the post-Josquin generation and a singer disgraced from the Emperor Charles V’s...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2015
BRAHMS Ein Deutsches Requiem
The unenlightened, lamented Adrian Mole will never ‘see Michaelangelo’s Mona Lisa. Nor will they thrill to a Brahms Opera.’ Perhaps...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2015
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Myra Hess: a national treasure revisited in Jessica Duchen’s biography
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Mahler in miniature: Stephen Downes delivers a witty, wry portrait for the Critical Lives series
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Michel Béroff at 75: Erato's monumental box-set celebrates a brilliant and versatile pianist
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
Fell Audio debuts with British-made hi-fi duo offering style, substance, and value
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
New box-sets: Beethoven from Barenboim, Arrau and Klemperer, plus Irmgard Seefried Edition
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
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