Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
A truly lovely programme, this, as generous as it is absorbing, devoted to songs spanning some 120 years by composers...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2018
Anyone familiar with the repertoire on this disc will know that it has been reflected and refracted through many artistic...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2018
Nordic humility combined with Danish plain speaking to take the country’s unique song tradition in a new direction in the...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2018
Making their song debut on Linn records, Jacques Imbrailo and Alisdair Hogarth offer a deeply satisfying two-part recital. Sibelius takes...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2018
Feliks Nowowiejski was a Polish composer, born in Wartenburg (now Barczewo) in East Prussia in 1877. Having studied composition with...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2018
Sigismund Neukomm (1778-1858) studied for seven years with Haydn in Vienna. From 1809 he was based in Paris, albeit with...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2018
For Claudio Monteverdi 1607 was a devastating year. February saw the premiere of his first opera, Orfeo, and then just...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 09/2018
If Monteverdi was the midwife of the Italian madrigal – ushering it into the new musical world of the Baroque...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2018
Haydn’s vision of a benignly ordered universe is in many ways a no-fail work. This new version, seemingly recorded at...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2018
Even in this golden age of ‘early music’ sopranos, Grace Davidson is outstanding for her seraphic purity and evenness of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore 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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