Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Harriet Burns and Ian Tindale have emerged as a significant lieder partnership in recent years, though their Schubert album, surprisingly...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2024
Arvo Pärt’s Newman-inspired Littlemore Tractus sets the tone for this disc both musically and thematically. As Kai Kutman’s notes point...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2024
Faultless choral singing in the tiny Ave verum corpus, taken at a flowing (and palpably two-to-the-bar) tempo, augurs well for...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2024
The Crouch End Festival Chorus’s latest release focuses on rarely performed music by Felix Mendelssohn and his older sister, Fanny,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2024
For their second album, La Quintina premiere an unknown Mass by English Renaissance composer Nicholas Ludford (c1490-1557), performed by three...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2024
Songs comprise a substantial part of Rued Langgaard’s earlier output, affording an overview of how his music evolved during his...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2024
Emily Howard’s choral work The Anvil was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and the Manchester International Festival in 2019 to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 02/2024
Joël-Marie Fauquet’s booklet note for this recording of Les Béatitudes (1879) is a model of its kind, as it does...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2024
The most lavish of Charpentier’s four extant Te Deum settings was for an unknown occasion in 1692; there is an...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
Caldara’s Gloria in C for eight-part choir, soloists and orchestra (composed September 1707) might have formed part of a Mass...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
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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