Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
These four overture-suites and one chamber concerto are pretty much what one would expect from Telemann: amiable, urbane, expertly written...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2015
Two sonatas for violin and piano, two for cello and piano, all composed before 1905 (strangely, no sonatas for his...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2015
It began in West Yorkshire, back in the earliest days of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, when California-based composer Roger...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2015
Having given us a solo Ornstein disc back in 2002 (10/02), Marc-André Hamelin here offers the hypertrophic Piano Quintet. Composed...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW2015
Thanks to the admiring accounts of the likes of John Evelyn and Roger North, we know a fair bit about...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2015
Recorded the better part of 10 years ago, here’s a disc of four Haydn piano trios, none of them perhaps...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW2015
Nicola Francesco Haym (1678-1729) is not a totally obscure figure. Although this release may well be the first to add...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2015
Best known as the author of several song cycles, hence the soubriquet of ‘the English Schumann’, Arthur Somervell was nevertheless...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: AW2015
A new set of Beethoven’s string trios is always a welcome event, and this one, by a group named after...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2015
None of these pieces was written for cello and harpsichord, and at no stage does that matter one bit. Bach’s...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2015
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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