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...
Without a full complement of sopranos ready to hurl out and sustain high Cs, a choir preparing to record Bruckner...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2015
It is over 40 years since the last recording of Bliss’s choral symphony Morning Heroes, written in 1930 as a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2015
That Biber’s massive 54-part Missa Salisburgensis of 1682 was for a long time carelessly attributed to Orazio Benevoli and dated...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2015
With all the trappings of secular commissions – including additional remuneration and an opportunity for luxuriant scoring – Bach wrote...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2015
The husband-and-wife duo of Leon Fleisher and Katherine Jacobson commence this one piano/four hand programme with Brahms’s singerless edition of...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2015
This set was to have been a birthday present for the great Czech pianist Ivan Moravec, who would have been...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2015
Young Armenian pianist Varduhi Yeritsyan is a more than eloquent advocate for Scriabin, powerful and lucid even in the composer’s...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2015
Befitting its extraordinary subject, Anne-Kathrin Peitz and Youlian Tabakov’s brilliant film about the French composer and hardline agent provocateur Erik...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2015
Julius Reubke was a remarkable talent whose life was cut tragically sort: he died in 1858 aged just 24. The...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2015
Recalling in particular Stefan Vladar’s fine early recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations (Sony, 4/92), I turned to the radically different...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2015
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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