Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
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Perpetual Night: 17th Century Ayres and Songs
The title may be ‘Perpetual Night’ but there’s absolutely nothing gloomy or unremitting about this delicious disc and its chiaroscuro...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2018
O lux beata Trinitas
And so Graham Ross and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, reach the end of their musical pilgrimage through the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2018
Sandrine Piau: Chimère
As Sandrine Piau explains in a brief booklet note, this album completes a leisurely triptych that started with ‘Evocation’ a...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2018
Cantata: yet can I hear... (Bejun Mehta)
The American countertenor Bejun Mehta has one of the best voices in the business. Full, free and with real power...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2018
SVIRIDOV Canticles and Prayers. The Red Easter
This is a beautiful selection of Sviridov’s choral music. There is a subtlety to phrasing of the Latvian Radio Choir’s...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2018
STRAUSS Lieder (Maria Bengtsson)
Maria Bengtsson is an experienced soprano with many major Strauss roles on her CV, and here she brings plenty of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2018
SCHUBERT Songs Vol 4 (Bostridge)
Six months after I reviewed the third volume of Ian Bostridge’s live Schubert series from the Wigmore Hall (12/17), here’s...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2018
SCARLATTI Responsories for Holy Week: Holy Saturday
It is not certain that all the music on this disc is by Scarlatti; the manuscript that contains the nine...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2018
RACHMANINOV All-night Vigil (Bielecka)
The Rachmaninov Vigil has become one of those works, rather like Mozart’s Requiem, of which one can never have too...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2018
PURCELL Welcome Songs for King Charles II
The Sixteen cleverly mix up secular, political and sacred pieces revolving around flattering court odes that welcomed the king and...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2018
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Replay: The Guarneri at the top of their game; François in concert; Demus in Dresden
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
Pro-Ject Stereo Set E CD: Small System, Big Appeal
This compact, all-in-one hi-fi package from Pro-Ject strips away the system-matching fuss,...
Book review - The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival (by Anne Sebba)
‘There is very little comfort here for anyone who regards music as an ennobling or humanising force’
Review - Berliner Philharmoniker and Seiji Ozawa: A Tribute
Andrew Farach-Colton enjoys a sumptuous set of the Japanese conductor’s recordings
Shostakovich at 50: three new box-sets that do the composer justice
Rob Cowan on sets honouring a composer anniversary and a Croatian conductor
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