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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CESARINI Cantatas
According to the 17th-century intellectual Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni, the composer Carlo Francesco Cesarini was the equal of Stradella, Bononcini and...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2017
BRAHMS Die schöne Magelone
Though recorded periodically and treated as a cultural touchstone in German-speaking countries, Brahms’s Die schöne Magelone still leaves seasoned English-speaking...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2017
Voyages: Organ of the Paris Philharmonie
Enormously popular in the first half of the 20th century and largely forgotten and generally reviled during the second half,...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 03/2017
Cyprien Katsaris: Elective Affinities
Die Wahlverwandt-schaften is claimed by the booklet writer to be ‘possibly the best novel’ by Goethe. ‘It refers to the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2017
William Kapell: Broadcasts and Concert Performances 1944‑1952
The death of William Kapell (1922 53) at the age of 31 in a plane crash robbed the world of...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2017
ZIMMERMANN Voces Abandonadas
A rare beast inside the world of German modern composition – a composer whose aesthetic spills out of John Cage...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 03/2017
WEITZ; JONGEN Organ Works
A quarter of a century has passed since Paul Derrett’s pioneering survey of Guy Weitz’s organ music, recorded in Hereford...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2017
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Introduction and Fugue for 2 Pianos
Around the same time (1945 46) that Vaughan Williams was collaborating with Joseph Cooper on the two-piano transcription of his...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Introduction and Fugue for 2 Pianos
Around the same time (1945 46) that Vaughan Williams was collaborating with Joseph Cooper on the two-piano transcription of his...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017
SCRIABIN 10 Piano Sonatas. Fantasy
Much of Garrick Ohlsson’s Scriabin sonata cycle is remarkably literal, maybe shockingly so. It’s as if the pianist were determined...
Reviewed by Jed Distler 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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