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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HANDEL Susanna
Susanna (1749) is based on a tale from the Apocrypha. Two hypocritical pillars of the establishment make sexual advances to...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2017
HANDEL Messiah
This is Andrew Davis’s second recording of Messiah. His first, made in 1986 for EMI (also with the Toronto Symphony...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2017
Dixit Dominus
An unusual coupling, this, reflecting the fact that the recording comes from a concert, given in the Auditori in Barcelona....
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2017
GUBAIDULINA Sonnengesang
Gubaidulina’s substantial Sonnengesang (‘The Canticle of the Sun’) was written for Mstislav Rostropovich on his 70th birthday, and the dedicatee...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2017
GOMBERT Motets II
This double album of motets by Nicolas Gombert (c1495-1560) from the vocal ensemble Beauty Farm is their second release, offering...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2017
DURANTE Requiem
Francesco Durante (1684-1755) made a profound mark on musical culture in early-18th-century Naples. His pupils at the city’s prestigious conservatories...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2017
DANIELPOUR Songs of Solitude. War Songs
Richard Danielpour composed Songs of Solitude (2002), on poems by Yeats, in the weeks following the September 11 attacks; War...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2017
CALDARA Salve Regina
Antonio Caldara is best remembered today as a composer of opera. It’s a genre absent from this new collection of...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2017
Sleepers Awake!
The latest disc from The Bach Players, based as usual on one of their London concert programmes, brings together three...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2017
ARNALDS Island Songs
Island Songs follows on from a number of projects by Ólafur Arnalds, such as Found Songs and Living Room Songs...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn 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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