Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Sarahbanda is a by-product of Berlin Philharmonic horn player Sarah Willis’s successful ‘Mozart y Mambo’ series, which she recorded in...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2024
Like the Verbier Festival, ‘Festival Martha Argerich’ hosts some of the world’s best-known soloists, as well as some who aren’t...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2024
‘The tirelessly active instrument maker, Mr Stauffer … has introduced a new instrument, which he calls the Guitarre d’amour’, reported...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2024
Throughout this ingeniously programmed ‘American Road Trip’, showcasing his versatility across various American musical styles, Augustin Hadelich displays mastery in...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2024
The sharp-eyed reader of Michael Kennedy’s standard work on the music of Vaughan Williams will remember that he composed three...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 10/2024
That the Verona-born violinist and composer Giuseppe Torelli has long been recognised as an important figure in the development of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2024
This is a superb performance of Taneyev’s massive and meaty Piano Quintet. Like Mikhail Pletnev and his starry quartet of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2024
Until now, Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis and Jeremy Denk have joined up on only a single recording, which featured the...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 10/2024
As I write this review David Matthews has probably already finished his String Quartet No 18! Only the Seventh (with...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 10/2024
In her booklet note to La Rêveuse’s latest superb release, the ensemble’s co-founder, gamba player Florence Bolton, remarks how the...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2024
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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