Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Volume 8 of David Ponsford’s magisterial survey of 18th-century French organ music was recorded in May 2023 in Marmoutier Abbey...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2024
As they join the ranks of éminences grises, many musicians turn retrospective, revisiting repertoire high points to make final refinements....
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 02/2024
The 34-year-old pianist Julian Jaeyoung Kim keeps a vice-like grip on the dotted rhythms in the first movement of Brahms’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2024
The more I listen to the music of Amy Beach, the more I wonder why it is not more widely...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
Piotr Anderszewski’s last release, a Gramophone Award winner, carefully curated excerpts from Book 2 of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier (2/21). This...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 02/2024
The more one listens to Alkan’s music, the more one realises what an extraordinary composer he is. Though the three...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
Less than a decade ago, Croatian composer Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) was such an unknown that Jeremy Nicholas could begin a...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 02/2024
A sepia postcard framing the artists, a red rose lying alongside it, illustrates the booklet of ‘Le temps retrouvé’, a...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 02/2024
London East Ender Lionel Tertis (1876-1975) was one of the most influential viola players of the last century, his sound...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2024
Schumann’s was the first great piano quintet, an instrumental combination virtually unknown at the time. Amazingly, the two Schumann masterpieces...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera 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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