Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Oliver Davis is a lucky man. He enjoys the freedom to write whatever he wishes and has released a new...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2018
Norwegian contemporary music often gets overlooked (at least in the UK) next to that from other Scandinavian countries, so this...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2018
There was a time when collectors must have thought that the sublime outpouring of grace and goodwill that is Bruckner’s...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2018
Gerd Schaller has made something of a speciality of performing rarely heard or forgotten Bruckner scores. This new recording of...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2018
Joshua Bell was in his teens when he first recorded the Bruch G minor and Mendelssohn concertos with Neville Marriner...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
Alpha is a label that gets ever more wide-ranging, as witness the discs of Shostakovich chamber music (see page 63)...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2018
Claudio Abbado stepped down from his post as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in May 2002 on the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2018
The opening orchestral tutti seems to augur well for this new account of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto. I do miss the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
There can’t be many ensembles around as stylistically fleet-footed as Hamburg’s Ensemble Resonanz. I’m still thinking fondly back to their...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2018
Tor Aulin (1866-1914) had a tough life. He was three when his father died, his mother was heartlessly strict, and...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
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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