Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
The latest instalment in Angela Hewitt’s traversal of Beethoven’s piano sonatas – Vol 7, though not packaged as such –...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2018
Proverbially, the clavichord is held to be the most expressive of all keyboard instruments because the player’s contact with the...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2018
Despite his prolific creative output and long-held prominence as the founder and conductor of important new music ensembles, Theodore Antoniou...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018
‘Metamorphoses’: a curious name for an ensemble devoted to the rather limited repertoire for clarinet, viola and piano, of which...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2018
Remarkably, recorded versions of Weinberg’s Piano Quintet are now up around double figures. Maybe not so remarkably, because this is...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2018
Shostakovich is something of a departure on disc for both the Belcea Quartet and Piotr Anderszewski but a very welcome...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2018
This debut recording by the Trio Vitruvi leaves me frankly perplexed. On the one hand, I’m impressed by these young...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
As the cover billing suggests, Isabelle Faust is very much the guiding light in this period-instrument Octet. Yet her creative...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2018
‘A conversation between two instruments instead of a debate between two virtuosos’ is how Saint-Saëns described La Muse et le...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2018
Parry made no secret of his musical lineage. ‘Zweite Quartette C dur’, wrote the 20-year-old composer on the score of...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby 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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