Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
One can sense Glen Wilson’s frustration when in the booklet-note for this release he directs us towards a more extensive...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2016
This new, well-filled disc from Joseph Moog, Gramophone’s 2015 Young Artist of the Year, gives us a chance to assess...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2016
The centrepiece of Turin-born Gabriele Carcano’s debut recording of early Brahms is the mighty F minor Sonata, Op 5. He...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2016
Technical polish, intelligent musicianship, well-reasoned tempi, and scrupulously executed ornaments characterise Charles Owen’s Bach Partitas, along with a rounded and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2016
Unless you’re a clarinet geek, the name Franz Tausch might not mean too much. He was an important clarinettist during...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2016
Although only five years separate Tchaikovsky’s first and last string quartets, they are stylistically very different. The First, written in...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2016
Stanford’s Fifth String Quartet walks out with a spring in its step and a song on its lips: not, perhaps,...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016
With this live set, captured last March in Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw (not to be confused with the venerable Concertgebouw), the Brodsky...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2016
The Benvenue Fortepiano Trio (and friends) tear into the opening of Schumann’s Quintet with gusto, making the most of the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2016
The choice of the first of Saint-Saëns’s two string quartets is a rather apt pairing with the Quintet in that...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas 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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