Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Steven Isserlis is a past master when it comes to matching his pianists to repertoire: Robert Levin in Beethoven, Dénes...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2015
It remains puzzling why so comparatively few big-name fiddle players include any Ernst in their repertoire. This latest addition to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015
Interesting the different available approaches to Op 106, among them the Prague Quartet, alert, vibrant, very full-on, The Lindsays and...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2015
Bernard Herrmann was not satisfied with being a film composer of genius: he wanted to conquer the concert hall too,...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 07/2015
Ensemble-in-residence at Belgium’s Cultureel Centrum Maasmechelen, the Parnassus Akademie was founded by cellist Michael Gross, best known for his work...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2015
This album comes from a pair of live recitals given at Alice Tully Hall in March. The three piano quartets...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2015
‘Placid and melodious’ is how The Record Guide (1951/55) described these clarinet sonatas, the verdict of placidity contradicted by many...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2015
As Jorrit Tamminga amusingly recounts in his booklet-note, it was a chance encounter with Boulez that led to his musical...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2015
The Sei Terzettini were written over a period of about a year from 1793, 25 years after Boccherini arrived in...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2015
Linn’s fast-building accumulation of core Baroque repertory continues here with the sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord, six wondrous works...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp 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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