Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Not so long ago, in the words of writer and broadcaster Michael Oliver, Stravinsky’s elegant Concerto ‘generally sounded very nasty...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2024
BIS’s third recording of the four tone poems Sibelius based on the adventures of the hero Lemminkäinen from the Kalevala...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2024
It’s good to see the Sgambati Piano Concerto given another dusting. As the first Romantic piano concerto composed by someone...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
Although a Bicentennial commission and premiered in New York, Messiaen’s Des canyons aux étoiles … (1971 74) has only latterly...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2024
Conducting the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, of which he is Artistic Director for Life, in his native Tallinn, Neeme Järvi...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2024
Dvořák would probably be accused of cultural appropriation these days, but the critic Louis Ehlert took an altogether more generous...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2024
Another Schumann/Grieg concertos coupling, anyone? After Lipatti, Kovacevich and countless others, what does this new one have to offer? Well,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2024
From the outset these 12 concertos have always been beyond borders – created for diverse occasions in Rome, revised by...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
‘The sound of groaning cellos’ was how Stéphane Mallarmé evoked the Paris home of Ernest Chausson, though he might simply...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2024
When Leopold Nowak’s edition of the original 1873 version of Bruckner’s Third Symphony was published in 1977, there was hope...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne 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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