Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
The Anglican church is responsible for generating a unique repertoire of music for upper voices – music that is celebrated...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW16
For aeons Andrew Parrott’s version (Virgin, 1/95) was the only noteworthy recording of Vivaldi’s popular Gloria (RV589) that used an...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW16
‘Virgil Thomson’s composing gift has never relied on interesting ideas, but on the uses to which dull ideas can be...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: AW16
This anthology of Tchaikovsky’s sacred music is a valuable addition to the catalogue, containing as it does material from the...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW16
This logically planned programme is beautifully sung and blessed with outstandingly vivid recorded sound. We are brought close to the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW16
This disc might start with a bang, Iain Burnside welcoming us on board with a firm jolt at the start...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW16
Liturgical music by two Swedish organist-composers, one born in 1864, the other 22 years later. Both worked around Stockholm but...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW16
Founded just a year ago, Utopia are among the proliferating number of young ensembles to combine a softer continental sound...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: AW16
Emperor Leopold I (1640-1705) was one of the most musically minded of the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperors. His cultivation of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW16
After 10 years of recordings with Hyperion, Stephen Rice and The Brabant Ensemble can look back on a truly enviable...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: AW16
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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