Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
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JS BACH Mass in B minor, BWV 232
The filming of this B minor Mass operates under some confusion as to whether the music is there to illustrate...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2017
TELEMANN; WEBER; BAKSA; BRUCH Viola Concerto
Few contemporary composers are harder to pin down than Andreas Baksa (1950 2016). Too easily confused with the American composer...
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Chailly: Overtures, Preludes & Intermezzi
At first, this looks like a random collection of overtures, preludes and intermezzos gathered by Riccardo Chailly, mixing the familiar...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2017
New Era
It was the 18th-century Mannheimers that put the clarinet on the map and inspired Mozart to mine the full expressive...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017
Frühling in Wien
It’s hardly surprising that an Austrian conductor who earlier on in his professional life played in both the Vienna Philharmonic...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2017
British Tone Poems
All but one of the six items on this latest serving of home-grown fare from Rumon Gamba and the BBC...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2017
WEINBERG Chamber Symphonies. Piano Quintet
In 1988 Mieczysaw Weinberg claimed he started using the term ‘chamber symphony’ because he ‘didn’t want to continue the sequence...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2017
TÜÜR Clarinet Concertos
It is Erkki-Sven Tüür’s tight control of material and form that frees his notes up to have such impact. The...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2017
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto Op 35. Meditation Op 42
First impressions count. The opening orchestral tutti of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto is described Allegro moderato with a metronome marking of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2017
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Replay: The Guarneri at the top of their game; François in concert; Demus in Dresden
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
Pro-Ject Stereo Set E CD: Small System, Big Appeal
This compact, all-in-one hi-fi package from Pro-Ject strips away the system-matching fuss,...
Book review - The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival (by Anne Sebba)
‘There is very little comfort here for anyone who regards music as an ennobling or humanising force’
Review - Berliner Philharmoniker and Seiji Ozawa: A Tribute
Andrew Farach-Colton enjoys a sumptuous set of the Japanese conductor’s recordings
Shostakovich at 50: three new box-sets that do the composer justice
Rob Cowan on sets honouring a composer anniversary and a Croatian conductor
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