Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
In the third and last of their issues of 13th-century conductus arising from an AHRC research project at the University...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 04/2016
Sensuality doesn’t so much ooze as burst in ecstatic, convulsive spasms from I Fagiolini’s latest recording. If it weren’t for...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2016
‘An exceptionally fine singer’, noted the much-missed John Steane in his review of Thomas Oliemans’s Schwanengesang (Etcetera, 3/11), while being...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2016
Christoph Prégardien is still one of the finest, most thoughtful Lieder singers active today, and this new recital, presenting nine...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2016
The hero of Dacapo’s fourth recent recording of Nielsen’s ensemble songs isn’t so much the composer himself as DR, the...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2016
It’s been a while since we’ve heard Magdalena Kožená in Baroque repertoire. Her previous recordings of music from the period,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2016
Hugo and Arnold de Lantins are somewhat shadowy figures (possibly brothers, though this is not proven) who rubbed shoulders with...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2016
When I interviewed Edward Gardner in 2014, he expressed regret that he’d not had the opportunity to conduct any Janáček...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2016
It was indeed fateful that Howells should have found himself in Cambridge during the Second World War in order to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2016
Augustus the Strong’s convenient conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1697 enabled the Elector of Saxony to become the King of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2016
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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