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...
Hard on the heels of Christopher Hogwood's recording of Mozart's Requiem, in the scholarly new edition by Richard Maunder (L'Oiseau-Lyre...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 11/1984
This is an interesting selection of overtures both deservedly popular and undeservedly ignored played with Norrington's now familiar capacity for...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1990
I have been recommending Riccardo Chailly’s recording of Gurrelieder against all comers ever since it first appeared, but I wavered...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1996
A more predictable context for Liadov’s three miniatures masterpieces would have been to follow the music of the composer who...
Reviewed in issue 7/1996
John Eliot Gardiner has chosen to give Carissimi oratorios the celebrity treatment he has usually reserved for Monteverdi, Handel and,...
Reviewed in issue 11/1990
I don’t know why, but among ‘early’ musicians, it always seems to be viol players who are the most willing...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 7/2004
Simpson would never have claimed that choral music was his metier. Yet for lovers of his music there is something...
Reviewed in issue 2/1999
Organum's recordings of various kinds of chant invariably leave me astounded by the musical—and spiritual—revelations they offer and frustrated by...
Reviewed in issue 1/1995
Oedipus and Jocasta are both put under severe strain. True. But to what extent should this show up in their...
Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 1/2005
The bait here is the Albumblätter, Op 124. This is hardly vintage Schumann but it is fascinating to hear chippings...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2011
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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