Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
A good deal of the impact of this excellent release is due to the splendidly accommodating acoustic of the new...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2016
Erland von Koch (1910-2009) was very prolific in a composing career lasting over eight decades. A number of his works...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2016
Ludovic Morlot’s pairing of the Third and Fourth Symphonies rolls up months after Andrew Davis kicked off his Chandos cycle...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2016
No one can be sure that the G major Violin Concerto recorded here is authentic Haydn. But with the composer’s...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2016
Only 22 this year, and two or three years younger than that when these recordings were made, the American violinist...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2016
This is an enticing package. You’d have to be a fairly diehard Anglophobe not to be attracted to a new...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2016
For readers of a certain age, The Lark Ascending may be the biggest draw here. Pinchas Zukerman, long the starriest...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2016
Some of Stephen Hough’s greatest triumphs are to be found in Hyperion’s wondrous Romantic Piano Concerto series. In a sense...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2016
Vol 1 of Chandos’s ‘Comédie et Tragédie’ series contained well-known pieces by Lully, Marais and Rebel. The music here is...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2016
Born Alexander Paucker in Bucharest, Francis Chagrin (1905-1972) settled first in Paris (where he studied with Paul Dukas and Nadia...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach 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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