Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
She did great things with Bruch’s first two violin concertos. Now Antje Weithaas, in her determination to complete the set,...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 01/2017
There’s much to admire in Jack Liebeck’s patrician account of Bruch’s D minor Violin Concerto. His playing is virtually flawless...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2017
Zoltán Kocsis, that ‘giant of music’ (as Iván Fischer has called him), became Music Director of the Hungarian National Philharmonic...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2017
Bruno Weil’s initial basic tempo, held with conviction but not rigidity through the first movement’s vicissitudes, is crotchet=78: much less...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017
The Vienna Philharmonic gave this concert a little over a year after Simon Rattle had recorded the nine symphonies for...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017
It must be said that Nemanja Radulovic´’s Bach and I did not get off to a good start. The disc...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2017
Now in his mid-70s, Vyacheslav Artyomov is best known for his six cosmic-mystical-syncretic symphonies, which together make up one of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2017
As television presentations go, this often treasurable account of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius is very much of its time...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2016
You can tell within seconds that you’re listening to a Capella de la Torre recording. This award-winning early music ensemble...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2016
I have an abiding memory of attending a Norwegian Soloists’ Choir concert that journeyed through a tricky smorgasbord of Messiaen,...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2016
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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