Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
You’re never quite sure what to expect with Anna Clyne’s music, and that’s not meant as a criticism in any...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2024
Francis Purcell Warren (‘Bunny’ to his friends) was a gifted viola player killed, when only 21, at the Battle of...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 10/2024
When it comes to explosively vibrant album-opening chords, it takes some doing to top the Red-Bull-meets-fireworks-show shot of musical adrenalin...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2024
Gerard Schurmann throws down the gauntlet at the beginning of his Piano Concerto from 1972 73 with an opening cadenza...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2024
After the LGT Young Soloists’ several thematically programmed CDs, this one offers an unlikely juxtaposition of repertoire: the instrumentation becomes...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 10/2024
This Warner Classics disc does indeed contain Prokofiev’s ultimate hits: we have the Classical Symphony and then two suites from...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 10/2024
There are riches flowing from the Skani label, currently doing internationally for Latvian music what Dacapo previously has for Danish....
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2024
The slow movement of the A major Piano Concerto, K488, is a revealing indicator of a pianist’s approach to Mozart....
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2024
Period-instrument recordings of Mozart’s delightful Concerto for flute and harp are surprisingly infrequent, so it is good to see this...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2024
Isata Kanneh-Mason’s fifth Decca release is dedicated to the music of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn in an interesting programme including...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker 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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