Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
‘A Room of Her Own’ continues the Neave Trio’s exploration of works by female composers begun four years ago with...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2024
The hour referenced in the title is the period in the early decades of the 18th century when Italian influence...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2024
Whatever you think of Schumann’s orchestrational abilities, he had a marvellous sense of instrumental character. How perfectly suited the three...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024
While clarinettists and violinists – horn players, too – may disagree, Schubert’s hedonistic Octet has always seemed to me virtually...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2024
For someone who had never even heard of Johann Schenck, two discs totalling almost two hours of his music is...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2024
Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) died at the age of 38 from complications following childbirth, yet the Croatian composer left behind a...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024
Hackles might rise at the idea of tampering with Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, those piano gems from that fecund period...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024
Funny, the unconscious prejudices one acquires. Not that I’ve ever thought of the Nash Ensemble as anything other than excellent;...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2024
Two sonatas written in 1883, Strauss’s the work of a precociously gifted 16-year-old who would up his game four years...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2024
The rise of Julius Eastman as one of the most significant composers of his generation remains one of the most...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn 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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