Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
The tango, which Piazzolla liberated from dance, is both extended and tamed by the classical guitar. That’s partly what the...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2018
The art of the piano transcription is alive and kicking – or, more accurately, alive and singing in the hands...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2018
This welcome 15-track anthology is topped and tailed by two of the best-known concert organ pieces by native American composers,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2018
Vadym Kholodenko’s stated goal is to reveal the cohesion in the chronological development of Scriabin’s musical language. He chooses his...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2018
Before his flight to Scandinavia during the Bolshevik Revolution, Rachmaninov’s last recitals in Russia included some of the Op 39...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2018
‘I wanted my interpretation of these seminal works to sound fresh and different’, says LSO Leader Roman Simovic in the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2018
This is the stunning debut recording of Leonardo Pierdomenico, a 25-year-old native of Pescara in the Abbruzzo region of Italy...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2018
The more I continued listening to this recital, the more I felt that it was one of the finest all-Liszt...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2018
Like David Greilsammer’s inspired piano pairing of Scarlatti and Cage (Sony, 6/14), this disc from rising French harpsichordist Justin Taylor...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2018
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s series of Haydn’s piano sonatas reaches Vol 7, borne aloft by the momentum of almost unanimously laudatory reviews...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2018
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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