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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Perspectives
The American Brass Quintet has gone through many changes of personnel over the decades, but the high quality of the...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2017
North Texas Wind Symphony : Discoveries. Inventions. Mackey
The American concert band has a sound distinctively its own and a virtuosity that has attracted mainstream composers since the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2017
HELLERMANN Three Weeks in Cincinnati in December
Never mind that the title of William Hellermann’s Three Weeks in Cincinnati in December has nothing to do with the...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2017
HARBACH Orchestral Music vol 3
Barbara Harbach has nurtured a career as a harpsichordist, organist and teacher, but she’s also a prolific composer whose large...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2017
CHOPIN The Complete Works, Vol 13 – Parnassus
Like its 12 predecessors, Vol 13 of Ian Hobson’s complete Chopin cycle yields uneven results. The Barcarolle receives a clean...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2017
CARISSIMI Motets
Garrick Comeaux leads the Consortium Carissimi – founded in Rome in 1996 and established in Minneapolis-St Paul 10 years later...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 04/2017
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Litton)
A number of excellent releases document the Colorado Symphony’s increasing distinction over the past decade or so, and they play...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2017
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 3, 4 & 6
This release completes Vasily Petrenko’s impressive Tchaikovsky symphony cycle with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for Onyx, entirely living up...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2017
SCHOENBERG Gurrelieder
Following hot on the heels of two fine new recordings of Schoenberg’s grand fin de siècle cantata, this release captures...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2017
Sacred Duets
Aside from Carissimi’s Jephte and the oddity that is Emilio de Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima, e di Corpo, it’s hard...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2017
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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