Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Assuming you’re after a complete set of Telemann’s Twelve Fantasias for unaccompanied flute, is there any living flautist you’d rather...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2018
Born into a musical family, the Swiss pianist Walter Rehberg (1900 57) built up a busy career as pianist, teacher,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018
Here is a debut disc from a pianist whose biography does not feature any gold medals or prizes from international...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2018
Federico Colli made a splash when he won the 2012 Leeds International Piano Competition, as much for his red cravat...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2018
John Ogdon considered composing an unfocused pastime and hobby in relation to his busy concert career but that didn’t stop...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018
Writing in these pages recently about Paul Lewis’s latest Haydn adventure (Harmonia Mundi, 5/18), Harriet Smith rightly reminds us that...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2018
Michael Endres’s first recorded foray into Fauré (pun intended) stands out from the pack in several respects. In contrast to...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018
The ‘Funeral March’ Sonata immediately makes it clear why Aimi Kobayashi should have made it through to the final stage...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2018
It was during my studies at Kiev Conservatory that I first came across Norma Fisher’s name as an outstanding piano...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2018
For her third Odradek CD release, Pina Napolitano presents an intriguing playlist. She opens with Brahms’s Op 118 Piano Pieces,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler 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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