Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Modern guitarists and listeners will be most familiar with the music of blind Apulian lutenist and composer Giacomo Gorzanis (c1530-c1575)...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2018
Invictus draws its title from the poem by William Ernest Henley, one of the poets whose words are scattered throughout...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: AW18
Rebecca Dale’s debut album arrives with much fanfare and publicity, with her new label proclaiming that she is ‘the first...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2018
Evoking spaces and possibly rituals well beyond the shores of Europe within its three minutes, the D flat piano Prelude...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2018
This release represents the end of an era, and not just the end of Bach Collegium Japan’s long-running series of...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2018
Half of the tracks on this splendid disc are premiere recordings. For his texts the English composer Richard Allain (b1965)...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2018
This year’s disc of highlights from last year’s 31st Husum Festival (2017) showcases nine pianists playing the works of some...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2018
Remember Lang Lang’s DG release entitled ‘Memory’ (7/06), mostly centred around repertoire evocative of childhood recollections? Hélène Grimaud’s latest DG...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2018
Of Liszt’s pupils, the Scottish pianist Frederic Lamond (1868-1948) was survived only by José Vianna da Motta, who died a...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2018
It was surely only a matter of time before the Dutch violinist Lisa Jacobs recorded Paganini, after the assured, personality-rich...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2018
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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