Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Shortly after Boulez’s death, Richard Barrett published a brief ‘Boulez est mort’ article online. While for many the French composer...
Reviewed in issue AW16
Bach’s output abounds with instances of his revisiting older works to arrange them for different forces, so there’s an extent...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW16
The fact that so very few recordings exist of Albinoni’s Op 1 Trio Sonatas feels like a strange quirk of...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW16
This attractive mixed programme of Telemann’s works featuring flute or recorder has been designed by Ashley Solomon to celebrate Florilegium’s...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2016
As Osmo Vänskä powers into the home straight of his Minnesota Sibelius cycle, the first thing that strikes one about...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2016
Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt first recorded the three Brahms violin sonatas for EMI at the 2002 ‘Spannungen’ chamber music...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2016
A couple of years after completing his leisurely mix-and-match Schubert series for Harmonia Mundi, Matthias Goerne has made it on...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2016
This is the first album devoted exclusively to John Blow’s church music since the Parley of Instruments and the Choir...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2016
Kirill Gerstein’s last appearance in these pages was for his premiere recording of Tchaikovsky’s B flat minor Concerto using what...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2016
The indefatigable Jordi Savall continues to unite musicians from East and West as he traverses five centuries of musical traditions...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 09/2016
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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