Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
There is a lot going for the pairing of Scriabin and Scarlatti, and this DG debut album is nothing if...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2024
Eden Walker, a British pianist based in Hamburg, has chosen Max Reger for what is apparently his debut recording. The...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2024
Anna Vinnitskaya’s ‘Piano Dances’ uses Ravel’s two large-scale ‘Valse’ pieces to bookend a pair of stylised dance-based groups of miniatures...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2024
Saskia Giorgini, of Dutch and Italian heritage, has just released her first album of Debussy which, in terms of secure...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2024
The Brahms Op 117 Intermezzos that lead off Mikhail Pletnev’s excellently engineered 2023 Berlin recital reveal the pianist’s colouristic gifts...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2024
I’ve previously written about how Xaver Scharwenka’s piano-duet transcriptions of Beethoven’s symphonies are more resourceful and idiomatic from a pianistic...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2024
Some 12 years have passed since my previous review of Bach’s Six Trio Sonatas for organ. On that occasion (1/12)...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2024
Bach’s Art of Fugue has, arguably, fared better on piano than harpsichord, especially in recent years, with fine renditions from...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 07/2024
Benjamin Alard’s project to record Bach’s complete harpsichord and organ music is laudable and ambitious, of interest in particular for...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2024
‘What in the dazes is Pre-Raphaelite music?’ I hear you ask – as well you might, as this is a...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2024
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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