Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
From the outset, the young Monteverdi knew how to clothe lovers’ torment in music so beguiling as to induce the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2015
Words taken from the Magnificat make a somewhat surprising opening to this second in the projected series of four Passion...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2015
It is often claimed that Bach performed Reinhard Keiser’s St Mark Passion on Good Friday on at least three occasions...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2015
For over 700 years, every hour on the hour, a bugle call has sounded from the tower of the Church...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2015
Caldara had already written at least 19 oratorios for Mantua and Rome before 1716, when he entered the service of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2015
This film dates from the middle of Thielemann’s brief period in charge of the Munich Philharmonic. It was first released...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2015
The historical interest of Mendelssohn’s text of the St Matthew perhaps lies less in the details of the version than...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 07/2015
Something of a Tchaikovsky hit-parade here (hence the title and Classic FM connection) but nothing run-of-the-mill about the performers. The...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2015
The Netherlands-based violinist Rosanne Philippens is a significant young talent whose varied tonal palette especially suits Szymanowski’s music, though in...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2015
Talking of ‘far too fast’, here comes Sir Roger Norrington with a characteristic, challenging (and even snook-cocking) approach to Haydn’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2015
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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