Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
We learn from Andrew Stewart’s first-rate booklet that Daniel Hope wanted to make a dance album 20 years ago. Concept...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2024
Well, what a treat this is. I can’t be the only one who finds themselves, whenever a fresh concerto recording...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2024
The vitality of sound captured here by Linn is possibly the most attractive aspect of this album. It perfectly suits...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 05/2024
The Shostakovich quartets have moved from the periphery to the centre of the repertoire without too much in the way...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2024
As the booklet note confirms, this recording is ‘a celebration of 30 years of music-making’ between the splendid Galliard Ensemble...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2024
Trio Gaspard return with a third selection from across Haydn’s output of piano trios. The C major and E minor...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2024
It’s beginning to feel a bit like buses with Bojan Čičić: you spend ages thinking how enjoyable it would be...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2024
Couperin’s four Concerts royaux – each a suite of about half a dozen devilishly attractive instrumental movements, mostly dances –...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2024
How to do written justice to the delights here in hand? Artists-wise, this is a first-ever solo album from Quatuor...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2024
This recording of Brahms’s piano quartets featuring the great Hungarian cellist Miklós Perényi, now in his 70s, and a trio...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton 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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