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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6-Wire
In the midst of premiering new works by Mark Hagerty, Bright Sheng and Jennifer Barker and getting ready to make...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2018
S YIP Chamber Works
Born in Hong Kong and now living in the United States, Stephen Yip is a composer whose chamber works abound...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2018
GOTTSCHALK Art for Two
The Californian Arthur Gottschalk (b1952) – no relation, I think, to Louis Moreau Gottschalk – studied with Ross Lee Finney...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2018
GARLAND The Landscape Scrolls
It was the early 1980s when I dropped in at Lou Harrison’s place on the California coast. I had met...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2018
ANDERSON One at a time
Never mind that five of the nine works on this recording of solo instrumental music have lower-case titles. There is...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2018
Russian Émigré Composers: Prokofiev, Medtner, Grechaninov, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky
Given the title, it is surprising, to say the least, that not a single item on this disc was actually...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2018
The Passinge Mesures: Music of the English virginalists
Two distinct personae emerge from Mahan Esfahani’s engaging foray into the English virginal tradition (with some possibly Welsh composers, too)....
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2018
Igor Levit: Life
Igor Levit likes to deal with big subjects, whether it’s late Beethoven or supreme Bach. Now he addresses something bigger...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2018
CHOPIN; FAURÉ; SCRIABIN Impromptus (Katya Apekisheva)
Taking roughly a reverse chronology, Katya Apekisheva intersperses three pairs of Scriabin Impromptus with the six of Fauré and four...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2018
Anna Fedorova: Four Fantasies
Brahms’s Op 118 Piano Pieces (DiscAuvers, 2017) revealed Anna Fedorova to be a sensitive and conscientious interpreter, although a tad...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2018
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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