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 is the fourth in Järvi’s ‘Sound Project’ series, and the first dedicated to a single composer. Arvo Pärt, in...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2015
This is big-band Offenbach on modern instruments dealing freely with both ensemble sizes and editions, no authentic honeymoon. But Chandos’s...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2015
This is, finally, the memorial that all of us who were admirers of Steve Martland’s music have been waiting for....
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2015
The second disc in Christoph Eschenbach’s Hindemith series with the NDR Sinfonieorchester brings together the works that effectively marked the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2015
Having now heard all six of the second set of ‘London’ Symphonies in this series by Bruno Weil, I have...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2015
Rebecca Miller has already proved her credentials at the more angsty end of the 18th-century symphony with her Editor’s Choice...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2015
If you don’t want to know about the scientific plotting behind this music, look away now (skip to the next...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2015
Alice Coote, partnered with exquisite grace and scrupulous care by Mark Elder and the Hallé, gives us a Sea Pictures...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2015
Sebastian Klinger – first solo cellist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – has already committed several chamber and instrumental...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 11/2015
I’ve lost count of Argerich’s many recordings of the First Chopin Concerto but what remains extraordinary is how each one...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith 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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