Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
A decade ago Herbert Schuch recorded Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto with the WDR SO, coupling it with the Piano Concerto...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2024
Visual art and literature are at the core of the three piano cycles featured on Behzod Abduraimov’s latest solo release...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2024
Two things are likely to strike you listening to ‘Perseverance’, Marcus Eley’s new release of African American chamber music. First...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2024
The Empire City Men’s Chorus deliver a poignant and powerful rendition of Nicholas Weininger’s nine-movement cantata, a heartfelt homage to...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2024
Yvar Mikhashoff (1941 93) was best known as a pianist who championed contemporary music in big ways. He thought nothing...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2024
The road towards recognition has been a somewhat slow and circuitous one for Gregory T Glancey. Indeed, one of the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2024
Operetta recitals by star soloists have a long, if patchy, pedigree. Now Diana Damrau steps up, and it needs to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2024
Individual elements of this Siegfried live up to the high standards set by the previous instalments of the BRSO/Rattle concert...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2024
It’s the night before Christmas, and while the villagers of Dikanka gossip and drink vodka, the Devil is up to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2024
Filmed at the 2022 Donizetti Festival in Bergamo, this new Favorite is at once imperfect and significant: imperfect because there...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2024
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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