Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Hot on the heels of Andrew Parrott’s fine account of Taverner’s Western Wynde Mass (Avie, 5/16) comes this double-bill from...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2016
Carlo Gesualdo might get all the attention when it comes to colourful composer biographies but Alessandro Stradella (1639 82) gives...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2016
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral have a long and illustrious association with late-Renaissance Iberian polyphony. This new disc of works...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 07/2016
Some readers will have more experience of Estonia than I do, but fresh from a first exploration of Tallinn and...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2016
Lassus, Victoria and Schütz composed the only Passion settings before Bach that retain currency. This enterprising release presents two still...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2016
To have Opera Rara record a work dating from 1900 (and to record it in the composer’s revision of 1919)...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2016
Reger’s Op 110 motets belong to a select group of a cappella works (Friede auf Erden, Figure humaine, Jolivet’s Epithalamium...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2016
This is a timely release from ABC Classics. The Australian soprano Nicole Car made her Royal Opera debut last autumn,...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2016
Stefan Herheim’s production of Offenbach’s opéra fantastique raised more than a few eyebrows when it opened in Bregenz last year,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2016
The enthusiasm of Leo X for music was often commented upon by contemporaries. ‘The Pope,’ wrote the Venetian ambassador in...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 06/2016
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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