Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
In 2006 the Swiss company Claves embarked on a collaboration with the Clara Haskil Competition to record all the piano...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2017
While Mahler was acknowledged as the conductor of his generation (Richard Strauss his closest rival), Busoni was the supreme pianist....
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2017
For Vincent d’Indy, the near-forgotten Dessau court composer Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739 96) was ‘the connecting link between Haydn and...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017
Reger wrote four large-scale organ Fantasias and Fugues which were not based on chorale melodies. Ranging in playing length from...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2017
This CD is considerably enriched by Bine Bryndorf’s detailed and informative booklet-notes. Another plus point is that she plays the...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 04/2017
It’s questionable whether Mozart intended his C minor Fantasy, K475, to be yoked with the C minor Sonata, K457, in...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 04/2017
So far as I can see, this is the first time that Hélène de Montgeroult (1764-1836) has graced these pages....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2017
The lyrical refinement that typifies Imogen Cooper’s finest recordings suits this selection of Liszt original works and transcriptions. She may...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2017
Nowadays two distinct approaches to the music of Liszt prevail among pianists. One group views the published scores as more...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2017
The first disc in this three-disc set was released separately in 2014 and I reviewed it in these pages. I...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2017
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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