Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
For his fourth Hyperion album, Andrey Gugnin moves from Scriabin, Godowskian associates and Shostakovich to Grieg, where his stylistic and...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2024
This recording originated in Kirill Gerstein’s pandemic study of Debussy’s Études, but it’s also grounded in his recognition that we...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2024
When seemingly unusual details emerge from an interpretation of a thrice-familiar work, it’s often because the performer is taking certain...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2024
There is nothing extravagant, idiosyncratic or exceptional about this recording except its infallible good taste. Harpsichordist Masato Suzuki, who serves...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 06/2024
It is still relatively rare these days for established mainstream pianists to fall for an old instrument hook, line and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2024
Handel, Lawes, Blow, Locke, Purcell, Schop, Jenkins, Baltzar and Jones; sonatas, suites, concerts, grounds and popular tunes … this exploration...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2024
‘O sink upon us, night of love …’ Well, ‘Love Music’ is the title of this album from pianist Yeol...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2024
‘The Golden Age of Hollywood’: it’s an attractive idea for a recital, made even more interesting by the fact that...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2024
Just short of his half-century, Huw Watkins has long been active as both composer and pianist, and on disc an...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2024
The third volume of the Carducci Quartet’s Shostakovich cycle pairs two of the mightiest of the 15. Both the five-movement...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2024
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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