Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
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Nordic Affect are a pioneering group of Icelandic women period-performance musicians with a keen interest in women composers, contemporary and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2019
Rachel Barton Pine: Blues Dialogues
What a fascinating, beautiful disc. Rachel Barton Pine has borrowed the name from the four Blues Dialogues for unaccompanied violin...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2019
PIAZZOLLA Revolucionario; Neave Trio: Celebrating Piazzolla
Astor Piazzolla formed his first quintet in 1960, adding piano, guitar, violin and double bass to his bandoneón. It disbanded...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2019
PARRY Piano Trios Nos 1 & 3
Brahms, Schumann …it’s been too easy, over the long years of its relative neglect, to reach for obvious comparisons when...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2019
PANUFNIK String Quartets
Overshadowed by his symphonies, Panufnik’s string quartets have begun to find favour – this disc by the Apollon Musagète Quartet...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2019
DE LA GUERRE Chamber Music from the Brossard Collection
Recordings of Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre’s harpsichord music are not rare; recordings of her chamber music are. Yet in...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2019
BARTÓK; SCHUMANN Violin Sonatas (Waarts)
Stephen Waarts paired Schumann and Bartók for his debut recording because, he writes in a booklet note, ‘intense expressivity’ is...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2019
JS BACH Cello Suites Recomposed by Peter Gregson
DG’s ‘Recomposed’ series was launched 13 years ago with a disc featuring electropop-style arrangements of classic 19th-century orchestral recordings by...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2019
ARMSTRONG Dance Maze
Revision is the key element in this programme of music by Tom Armstrong (b1968). At its most straightforward, in the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2019
New Year’s Concert 2019
It was surely only a matter of time before Christian Thielemann was invited to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2019
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Replay: The Guarneri at the top of their game; François in concert; Demus in Dresden
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
Pro-Ject Stereo Set E CD: Small System, Big Appeal
This compact, all-in-one hi-fi package from Pro-Ject strips away the system-matching fuss,...
Book review - The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival (by Anne Sebba)
‘There is very little comfort here for anyone who regards music as an ennobling or humanising force’
Review - Berliner Philharmoniker and Seiji Ozawa: A Tribute
Andrew Farach-Colton enjoys a sumptuous set of the Japanese conductor’s recordings
Shostakovich at 50: three new box-sets that do the composer justice
Rob Cowan on sets honouring a composer anniversary and a Croatian conductor
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