Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Great musical instruments weren’t made to gather dust in museum cases, so when Pavel Gomziakov released his new recording of...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2016
In the booklet Christopher Gunning recalls how, in 2012, a memorable ascent of Sugar Loaf in the Black Mountains near...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2016
Steven Richman is to Gershwin as Charles Mackerras was to Janáček. For years he has tirelessly worked to free the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2016
Would it be fanciful to suggest that there’s something distinctly Netherlandish about this interpretation of Brahms’s D major Serenade? Jan...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2016
This DVD preserves highlights of a pair of concerts featuring András Schiff during last year’s Mozartwoche at the Mozarteum Foundation...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2016
It is something of an irony that Goethe conceived his five-act prose tragedy Egmont to include music but provided none,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2016
Here is Beethoven, Viennese Beethoven, under a conductor who remained impervious to all fads and fashions, save those of the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2016
This interesting programme offers a revealing glimpse at how the Baroque concerto grosso form, or something very like it, was...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2016
This is an unusual Bach coupling, but to give solo spotlights to both the founding members of Ausonia seems as...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2016
As a general rule it’s a bad idea to make sweeping generalisations in print, even if all your internal instincts...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner 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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