Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Just a few months after a fourth volume of ‘Schubert in English’ (12/23), Christopher Glynn’s initiative of recording lieder in...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2024
Plenty of eminent teachers and composers beyond Vivaldi had close links to the four Venetian ospedali grandi, the Pietà, Incurabili,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2024
Lieder recitals such as this are a reminder of what’s often missing in others: hallmarks include clean vocalism, unaffected treatment...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2024
Concert pianist meets cabaret star sounds like an idea conceived by an eager A&R executive in search of a fresh...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2024
A culmination of his choral essays in symphony (The Black Knight), oratorio (The Light of Life) and dramatic cantata (King...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 05/2024
By my count this is the fifth complete recording of Brumel’s fabled 12-voice Earthquake Mass, so called because of the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2024
In July 2022 the Chapel Choir of Trinity College Cambridge travelled to Paris to record in the church of Saint-Eustache...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2024
I admire many recordings by Nicholas McGegan, particularly his volumes of Scarlatti cantatas with Arcadian Academy (Conifer, 6/97) and his...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2024
Ludmila Berlinskaya and Arthur Ancelle are a formidably well-equipped duo whose acquaintance I first made back in 2017 with their...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2024
When the Handel (now Handel Hendrix) House opened in 2001, it could make use of only the top floors of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2024
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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