Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
The five original members of London Winds have been playing together since 1988 and a sense of innate musical understanding...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2015
Comparisons may be of academic interest for this Hungarian-themed album, but Ligeti’s first work of early maturity receives an outrageously...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2015
I’ll admit straightaway that it’s a relief not to see the words ‘Vol 1’ anywhere on this release. Not that...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2015
If you haven’t previously encountered Quatuor Terpsycordes, they’re a Geneva-based period-instrument group who formed in 1997; this is their second...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2015
The Canadian pianist Hélène Mercier has appeared in these pages on and off for more than 20 years, always in...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2015
The latest addition to the slowly growing Albéric Magnard discography presents us with an unusual if striking coupling. French violinist...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2015
There remains at least one Korngold masterpiece awaiting definitive, rehabilitative advocacy (the Symphonic Serenade of 1948), despite which the composer...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2015
The Fitelberg you may have heard of is Grzegorz, also a composer but better-known as conductor and transcriber of Szymanowski,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2015
Context is the principal factor that links these two programmes, with Dvořák as the common linchpin: an overwhelming musical presence...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2015
It’s a bold musician who dares to duet with Alisa Weilerstein. So much is out of the question: complacency, clichés,...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 11/2015
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
This compact, all-in-one hi-fi package from Pro-Ject strips away the system-matching fuss,...
‘There is very little comfort here for anyone who regards music as an ennobling or humanising force’
Andrew Farach-Colton enjoys a sumptuous set of the Japanese conductor’s recordings
Rob Cowan on sets honouring a composer anniversary and a Croatian conductor
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