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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Rostropovich Encores
Having released a hugely enjoyable Casals encores recording (Hyperion, 9/11), Alban Gerhardt is now back with Rostropovich encores. The first...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2017
SCHUBERT Death and the Maiden SIBELIUS Intimate Voices
If there was one thing we learnt about the Ehnes Quartet from their debut recording in 2014 – Shostakovich’s Seventh...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2017
Music For My Love
In October 2014 Yodit Tekle – the partner of Toccata Classics’ founder Martin Anderson – was diagnosed with cancer. Anderson...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2017
BEETHOVEN Piano and Violin Concertos
If you fancy a set of the Beethoven piano concertos that’s suitable for listening to at a single sitting, then...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2017
Daniel Barenboim: On My New Piano
A quick recap on the story behind Daniel Barenboim’s new piano. It all began with Liszt – when Barenboim went...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2017
GLASS Dreaming Awake
Bruce Levingston’s close association with Philip Glass over the years has seen him perform duets with the composer and produce...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2017
MOZART Piano Sonatas K281, 283, 333 & 576
William Youn is a pianist of great sensitivity, as previous reviewers of his Mozart sonata cycle have noted (5/14). But...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2017
Sing to Water
The Japanese pianist Kotaro Fukuma, now in his early thirties, begins this impressive album with his own arrangement of Smetana’s...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2017
Jean Muller: Reflets et symétries
Jean Muller’s new Soupir disc is a study in stylistic diversity, from the mid-19th-century Romanticism of Brahms’s First Sonata to...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2017
WOELFL Piano Sonatas
At the turn of the 19th century the Viennese musical elite loved nothing more than a gladiatorial keyboard contest. One...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2017
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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