Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
A compendium of popular and streetwise Lenny for Bernstein 100 – and the virtuoso trombonist in Christian Lindberg surely gives...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2018
What’s the longest viola joke in the world? Harold in Italy. It didn’t make Niccolò Paganini laugh though. The virtuoso...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018
The signs are that Jaap van Zweden will restore to the New York Philharmonic some of the bulk (muscle tone,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2018
It is almost impossible not to like Alessio Bax. Since his Leeds Competition win in 2000 he has confirmed his...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2018
Hugo Alfvén regarded his Symphony No 1 (1896) as the first ‘written in the Swedish language’. As vague a concept...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2018
Ondine’s new Bartók CD is an out-and-out winner; but, having in the past praised numerous versions of these two works,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2018
Lars Vogt would seem to have kept the best until last in this series of Beethoven concerto recordings with the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2018
It feels slightly unoriginal to begin a review by quoting that old adage, ‘the best things come to those who...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2018
The Colin Currie Group was formed in 2006 for a Prom that included Steve Reich’s Drumming. If you attended the...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2018
The Japanese pianist Ryutaro Suzuki will be 28 this year. Since 2008 he has studied at the Paris Conservatoire, the...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2018
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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