Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
If Can Çakmur’s recordings so far have shown anything, it’s that this rising star of the Turkish piano scene has...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2024
Arvo Pärt’s piano works may not rate as highly in his oeuvre as the choral settings or symphonic works but...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024
Those au fait with the music of Edmund Finnis via releases such as ‘The Air, Turning’ (NMC, 4/19) and ‘Shades’...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024
Lucas Debargue is an artist who likes to go his own way, as witness his terrifically characterful Scarlatti sonatas (11/19),...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2024
It’s the fate of the Austrian composer Carl Czerny to be known not as the composer of over 1000 compositions...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024
In 2011 Christopher Brown began composing 24 Preludes and Fugues for piano, completing them in time for his 70th birthday...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2024
For his first recording on a fortepiano, Gianluca Cascioli has chosen works by Beethoven composed and published between 1796 and...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2024
Cédric Tiberghien’s notion of mixing things up, done with such mastery in the first volume of his complete Beethoven variations...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2024
As with Vol 4 of Masaaki Suzuki’s Bach series (A/23), this new disc was recorded in Grauhof’s Stiftskirche St Georg,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
Silvestrov, Dowland, Shaw, Rota, Brian Eno … none of these names immediately suggest Venice, but the fact that they appear...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2024
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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