Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Of all the current doyens of modern Bach performance, Masaaki Suzuki knows no limits to his explorations. This is a...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2015
These discs from two of the highest-profile tenors in the Universal stable tell very different stories. Flórez’s, entitled just ‘Italia’,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2015
This new anthology from that ever-improving and most elegant of mixed Oxbridge choirs, the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, treads...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 10/2015
A successor to the two ensembles’ previous joint venture devoted to the Dow partbooks, this album presents a selection from...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2015
An international Sophie, Gretel, Pamina and much else, Camilla Tilling shows herself at home here in Scandinavian songs with a...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2015
CDs of 15th-century motets are thin on the ground, the tendency being to programme sacred music of this period around...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2015
Natalie Dessay and Philippe Cassard’s ‘Fiançailles pour rire’ ostensibly forms a sequel to their 2011 Debussy disc ‘Clair de lune’,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2015
Anybody with deep affection for the more noble anthems of the Anglican tradition will need no excuse to grab a...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/2015
Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien require no introduction. So well known are they (courtesy of an extensive discography) that it’s easy to...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2015
It is difficult to believe that Adrianne Pieczonka has built up some years of experience of singing taxing Strauss and...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 10/2015
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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