Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
I was struck while watching this latest instalment of Christian Thielemann’s video Bruckner cycle how much camera movement there is...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2016
This first recording of a Bruckner symphony by the relatively unknown American conductor Lance Friedel is notable for not only...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2016
A jet engine revs at the start of Mothership (2010) by Mason Bates, something like a spacecraft taking off. (At...
Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 04/2016
In recent years Gil Shaham has taken up the cudgels for the music of a decade which, he would argue,...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2016
This new disc of Bach concertos has attributes we have come to expect from the Dunedin Consort and Linn, namely...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2016
Atterberg’s Third Symphony was assembled in stages between 1914 and 1916 from ideas for three seascapes/tone-poems that – after the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2016
This is the fourth disc to be devoted exclusively to the music of Julian Anderson and the second such venture...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2016
Back in the May 2005 issue of Gramophone, Bryce Morrison extolled the virtues of a Scarlatti disc by a young...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2016
Aficionados of French (or France-based) opera will warm to ‘Paris, mon amour’ by the Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva. Schooled in...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/15
In their search for the vocal stars of the future, Rosenblatt Recitals have enjoyed an impressive hit-rate. Now that the...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2016
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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