Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
At the age of 24, Tarmo Peltokoski has already secured an impressive number of appointments. He is Music Director of...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2024
This violin-and-orchestra-shaped encounter between one of musical history’s forgotten names and one of its … well, Mozart, represents the launch...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2024
This pleasing programme highlights the gifts of a rather special musical family, one that recalls the similarly gifted Busch/Serkin, Menuhin...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2024
It’s always fascinating to hear an approximation at least of how this music might have sounded in Mahler’s day (as...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2024
Uzu is Toshio Hosokawa’s starkly palindromic title for axgripping 24-minute orchestral work from 2019, and the composer’s booklet note explains...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2024
Her ECM recitals ‘Visions fugitives’ (2/15) and ‘Elusive Affinity’ (9/19) defined Anna Gourari as a pianist on a mission, while...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2024
Alexandra Dariescu is celebrated as a creative programmer dedicated to music by women composers; and this inventive combination, which revitalises...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 09/2024
The distinguished contralto turned award-winning conductor has made a splash with her new orchestra in Atlanta. And now we can...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2024
‘I find it impossible to separate Bruckner from his deep spiritual beliefs’, writes Manfred Honeck in his notes for this...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2024
As with Markus Poschner’s cycle of the Bruckner symphonies for Capriccio, Gerd Schaller’s series of recordings for Profil aims to...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2024
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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