Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
As Susan Youens puts it – with some understatement – in her superb booklet-note, ‘The decade from 1810 to 1820...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2016
Favourite pupil of Francesco Provenzale and the most prominent Neapolitan composer before the arrival of Scarlatti, Gaetano Veneziano lived and...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 07/2016
Fans of John Rutter will welcome this premiere recording of his Psalmfest, a collection of seven of his existing psalm...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 07/2016
Reger wrote some 300 songs during the course of his career, very few of which form part of the regular...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2016
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, a violinist and composer prominent in Parisian musical life in the mid-18th century, was among the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2016
Born in Amiens and named after his town’s patron saint, Firminus Caron (c1440-after 1480) was a contemporary of Johannes Tinctoris...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 07/2016
Paul Hillier and his Theatre of Voices explore the circle of church organists and composers in northern Germany and the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2016
Each generation produces at least one organist who sets out to make the instrument acceptable to a new audience through...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2016
Vadym Kholodenko begins this decidedly unhackneyed programme with what may be the finest recording of Balakirev’s Sonata No 2 since...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2016
Coming soon after Freddy Kempf’s identical coupling, Jonas Vitaud’s recording is altogether less diffident. He speaks of the Grande Sonate...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2016
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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