Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Vocal – particularly choral – music has been a strong and persistent thread through Judith Weir’s output from the start...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2015
In 1816 Goethe received a package from Vienna containing a volume of songs by the young Franz Schubert. The Weimar...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2015
This important and exciting release from the Portland, Oregon-based 26-strong chamber choir is a notable successor to their ‘Good Friday...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2015
This new Gurrelieder, a follow-up in some ways to Hyperion’s well-received disc of Strauss tone-poems with the Gürzenich Orchestra (5/13),...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2015
The young Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado has established himself as one to watch in a series of impressive performances, recordings...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2015
The origins of the Innsbruck-based Wilten Boys’ Choir stretch back to the 13th century. Their director since 1991 has been...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2015
This second Onyx disc from Anne Schwanewilms follows on from a recital of songs by Liszt and Mahler (3/13) but...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2015
Rather like their Hyperion stablemates The Brabant Ensemble, Cinquecento make a speciality of championing lesser-known 16th-century composers. On this occasion,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2015
A Frankfurt-based copyright lawyer and synagogue cantor, Max Kowalski (1882-1956) was a part-time composer of songs – over 200 in...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2015
Until reaching the climactic summit of Riverine Delusions – where bass drum thwacks overpower the remainder of the ensemble –...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2015
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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