Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
This delectable collection of Monteverdi for soprano and ensemble is titled ‘La dolce vita’, and while it’s a perfect fit...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2018
This is an intriguing programme. Though one might initially think that it is simply inspired by the juxtaposition of the...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2018
It may be appropriate that a concert given on the centenary of Mahler’s death should contain his last completed symphonic...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2018
Reiner Riehn’s completion of Arnold Schoenberg’s chamber arrangement of Das Lied von der Erde has made several appearances on disc,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2018
It’s nearly 25 years since Paul Hillier’s Theatre of Voices recorded this St Matthew Passion (Harmonia Mundi, 9/94). As I...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2018
Michel Lambert was admired as a singer, lutenist and teacher in 17th-century Paris and, while remembered today as Lully’s father-in-law,...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2018
‘Leopold KoŽeluch is without question with young and old the most generally loved among our living composers, and this with...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2018
Gabriel Suovanen suggested Lars Karlsson (b1953) write a song-cycle for him when the two men ran into one another at...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2018
The avid amateur astronomer William Jackson (1730-1803) was director of music at Exeter Cathedral and a friend of Gainsborough. Michael...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2018
Little known today, Francesco Feo (1691 1761) was a Neapolitan composer and teacher, a contemporary of Leonardo Leo and Niccolò...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018
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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