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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Renée Fleming: Distant Light
The disc’s charismatic title comes from a line in the first song of The Strand Settings – evocative in its...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2017
TYBERG Masses
When the Jewish Austrian composer Marcel Tyberg was arrested by the Gestapo at his Italian home in 1944 it did...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2017
In the Stream of Life: Sibelius Songs
Even in the English-speaking world, where Sibelius has mostly enjoyed a high reputation, his vocal music remains undervalued. The language...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2017
Ladies Only - Love and Lament (Schubert)
This is a disc I rather wish I weren’t reviewing. There’s a fine line between artlessness and blandness in Schubert,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2017
MEYERBEER Songs Vol 2
Released some five years after the first volume, this second Naxos disc of Meyerbeer songs presents settings of poetry in...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2017
HANDEL Tu fedel? Tu costante? Italian cantatas
A prime selling point here is the premiere recording of an early version of the soprano cantata Tu fedel? Tu...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2017
GESUALDO Madrigals
Along with the Fifth Book of Madrigals issued alongside it, Gesualdo’s Sixth Book charts the culmination of his stylistic development,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2017
Christmas Cantatas
One of many useful ways in which the late Peter Williams (the final version of whose monumentum pro JSB was...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2017
DOVE For an Unknown Soldier
Jonathan Dove might be expected to come up with a pragmatic response in commemorating the First World War, and so...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2017
CHERUBINI; PLANTADE Requiems
Hervé Niquet brings together two posthumous tributes to Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette for the first time in a recording made...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 02/2017
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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