Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
This release isn’t far off being the complete works of the Thuringian composer Andreas Oswald. Born in Weimar in 1634,...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2024
Although memorably heartfelt and at times heroic, Felix Mendelssohn’s immensely likeable First Cello Sonata is hardly on a par with...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2024
Mozart, Strauss, 17th-century English madrigals … to say that (our own) Jonathan Freeman-Attwood and Timothy Jones’s series of ‘reimaginings’ of...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2024
This album beautifully showcases exactly the contrasts – the surprising varieties of light and shade – that we expect from...
Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 02/2024
It’s easy to imagine the peripatetic Italian guitarist and composer Francesco Corbetta (c1615-1681) cheerfully plucking and strumming his way through...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2024
If it did nothing else, Forkel’s origin story for the Goldberg Variations immortalised the name of Bach’s student, who would...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2024
Subtitled ‘symphonic colours of the woodwind orchestra’, Divine Art’s ‘Chromosphere’ is an engaging collection of attractive new works – all...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2024
If I hear a recording this year more guaranteed to put a spring in my step than this, then 2024...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
The Cleveland Orchestra recorded only one Tchaikovsky symphony with their longtime music director George Szell (the Fifth in 1959 for...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2024
The star attraction in this attractive Suppé collection is the Fantasia symphonica, a recent discovery by the conductor Ola Rudner,...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards 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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