Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Familiarity can breed contempt, but for the Opéra-Comique and Delibes’s Lakmé, it’s a case of ‘trust the experts’. A work...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2024
Beyond – what exactly? Boundaries? Highlights? Expectations? Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński's latest recording wants to test all these limits...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2024
Described as ‘Ireland’s premiere project choir’, Resurgam make their first commercial recording in collaboration with The English Cornett and Sackbut...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2024
‘Are orchestral versions of Schubert’s lieder really necessary?’ asks Benjamin Appl at the start of his booklet note. It’s a...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2024
Born in 1730, Antonio Sacchini was a full generation older than Mozart, but his sacred drama written for Lent in...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2024
Founded in 2005, Mathieu Romano’s 17-strong Ensemble Aedes are vocal shapeshifters, slipping seamlessly from opera chorus to chamber choir. French...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2024
Handel was not the only musical visitor at Cannons, the country estate of James Brydges (the Earl of Carnarvon, later...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2024
‘Exsultate jubilate!’ was also the title of a recording by Carolyn Sampson in 2006. Her disc, an Editor’s Choice that...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024
Two well-known cantatas composed in Italy and another devised about a decade later in England are interspersed with the Trio...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2024
Like the better-known André Campra, Jean Gilles (1668-1705) was a native of Provence. But unlike his older contemporary, Gilles never...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence 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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