Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Robert Paterson (b1970) is an award-winning composer (as well as a percussionist and conductor) from Buffalo in New York State....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2017
It is one of the joys of a recording like this that it brings a remote moment in classical music...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2017
‘Timber!’ is what lumberjacks yell to alert colleagues that a tree is falling. But there’s no need to run away...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2017
First released on the Dorian label in 1999, Andrew Rangell’s complete Chopin Mazurkas cycle gains a new lease of catalogue...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2017
Over the course of five days on Seattle’s Mercer Island, where the noted billionaire Paul Allen lives, former California EAR...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2017
Although Brahms’s Op 118 Piano Pieces hardly lack for world-class recordings, Robert Henry’s generous and big-boned yet lyrically informed pianism...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2017
If your name is Aida, then soprano is a pretty savvy career path. Indeed, Decca is marketing Kazan-born Aida Garifullina...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2017
The folk figure of Rübezahl – a kind of magic factotum, largely pro the good and anti the bad –...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2017
Those with long memories may recall another disc of Rossini arias which started with ‘Cruda sorte!’ from L’italiana in Algeri....
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2017
In its heyday, Sigmund Romberg’s The Student Prince ruled Broadway. Its original run lasted 608 performances and during the 1920s...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2017
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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