Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
String ensembles are hardly a new venture, yet 12 Ensemble already have a distinctive profile in terms of their spare...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2018
I believe this is the Piatti Quartet’s first full ‘unaccompanied’ release. They collaborated with Gottlieb Wallisch on a disc of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2018
Hard on the heels of LSO Live’s austere English-language Soldier’s Tale comes this version in the original French from Harmonia...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018
‘Immer zu! Ohne Rast und Ruh’ – ‘Ever onwards, without respite’: these words from Schubert’s turbulent Goethe setting ‘Rastlose Liebe’...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2018
‘A Drumming for this decade – and probably a few to come’ was my reaction to the Colin Currie Group’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2018
A pair of quintets composed for inspirational players, both of whom were pioneers of the nascent clarinet and its technique....
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2018
The past couple of years have seen the appearance of Alina Ibragimova’s cycle of all Mozart’s music for violin and...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2018
This recording should come with a warning not to read the booklet notes until after listening to the CD. Look...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 11/2018
‘Though free to think and act, we are held together like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable’, we...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018
‘History is cruel, and the history of music is no exception’, begin the notes to this latest top-drawer offering from...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2018
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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