Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Kyung Wha Chung’s solo Bach has changed since she last recorded some more than 40 years ago, but then, whose...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW16
There’s plenty to enjoy here, though Julia Fischer and Daniel Müller-Schott virtually duplicate a programme that Nigel Kennedy and Lynn...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW16
Cellist Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann is regularly to be found performing with early music ensembles such as La Petite Bande, Bach...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW16
First, a declaration of interest. Like anyone who learnt the cello through the ABRSM’s exams, the miniatures of WH Squire...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW16
This is the second time this year that Ludomir Różicki has featured in Gramophone – a composer highly regarded in...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW16
This is the hardest sort of disc to write about: good, thoroughly musical playing, yet without the enlivening, illuminating touch...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW16
North German critics with a humour bypass had taken Haydn to task for ‘the odd mix of the comic and...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW16
‘It would be hard to find a more vivid demonstration of the variety of French music-making in the last quarter...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW16
Ole Buck (b 1945) is one of the only composers to have emerged from Denmark’s 20th-century search for ‘new simplicity’...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW16
Heinrich von Herzogenberg dedicated the three quartets of his Op 42 (1884) to Brahms, his friend and musical idol. Hearing...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton 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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