Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Let’s start in the middle: Matthew Hindson’s piece is fun, kicking off with a lusty ‘one, a-two, a-one-two-three-four!’ which leads...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2015
This is a puzzling issue in some respects, as well as an unsatisfactory one. In essence, it’s an old-fashioned disc...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2015
A year or two ago I watched a fascinating Supraphon documentary about the great Czech conductor Václav Talich who, towards...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2015
Born in 1974, the brilliant French jazz composer/pianist Baptiste Trotignon has already won many plaudits both as a gifted solo...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2015
Does The Rite of Spring still have the power to shock? Seeing the Mariinsky Ballet reconstruction of the original ballet...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2015
Sibelius’s Two Pieces, Op 77, were on my wish list for recording projects in the composer’s anniversary year, so it’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2015
The penultimate instalment in this absorbing series launches with what is only the second-ever complete recording of the original score...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2015
The catalogue isn’t exactly short of fine recordings of the two Shostakovich cello concertos. But Gautier Capuçon immediately shows that...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2015
With his reputation irrevocably tarnished by his far right politics, Florent Schmitt is one of the more problematic figures of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2015
Louis Schwizgebel is the Swiss-Chinese pianist (b1987) who was awarded second prize at the 2012 Leeds International Piano Competition and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas 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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