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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BAXTER Ask the Moon
There are many lovely things on this recording of songs by Garth Baxter about loss and memory, and of marrying...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2018
La Nilsson: Complete Decca, Philips and DG Recordings
This anniversary set places under one attractive, inevitably large yet manageably portable roof all of Birgit Nilsson’s major-label recordings (the...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2018
Enfers: Famous Opera Scenes by Rameau and Gluck
My advice to anyone buying this excellent disc is to start by ignoring the contents of the booklet (apart from...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2018
Anita Rachvelishvili
Anita Rachvelishvili had the sort of remarkable big break of which young singers can only dream. Aged 25, a member...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2018
WEINBERGER Wallenstein
That it took a Bohemian Jew to bring Germany’s foundational drama of nationhood to the lyric stage was an irony...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2018
WAGNER Tristan und Isolde. Parsifal (Solti)
After Solti’s two Strauss one-acters with Birgit Nilsson (10/17), Decca now gives the lavish hi res reissue treatment to two...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2018
SMYTH The Boatswain's Mate
‘I want a great rollicking sound’, Ethel Smyth told the BBC Symphony Orchestra at rehearsals for her 1914 comic opera....
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 05/2018
PORPORA Opera Arias (Cencic)
Max Emanuel Cencic, once dubbed by Tim Ashley ‘the cult Croatian countertenor’, brings his trademark mix of flamboyance and sensitivity...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2018
MEYERBEER Le Prophète
It’s cruelly ironic that, with Meyerbeer performances still a comparative rarity (apart from, perhaps, in a range of smaller German...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2018
GIACOMELLI Fiamma vorace
Max Emanuel Cencic, Cecilia Bartoli and Joyce DiDonato are among the many singers to have recorded arias by Geminiano Giacomelli...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2018
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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