Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
With the possible exceptions of Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921) and Louis Andriessen (b1939), 20th-century Dutch music remains a closed book for...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2016
One of Steven Isserlis’s earliest triumphs in the recording studio was a wonderfully intuitive account of the Elgar Concerto with...
Reviewed in issue 03/2016
The site-specific collaboration tears become…streams become…, created for New York’s Park Avenue Armory by pianist Hélène Grimaud and artist Douglas...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2016
The most appealing thing about this disc is its title. Unfortunately that title conceals a misunderstanding. The consonance on display...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2016
Why review an album of Beatles songs in Gramophone? This magazine has some history with the Sixties band, having reviewed...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2016
Domenico Zipoli was born in Italy three years after Bach, dying at just 37 in Argentina. If he’s best remembered...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2016
In her poetic booklet-notes, Frederieke Saeijs emphasises her affinity with Ysaÿe’s unaccompanied Violin Sonatas. ‘I grew up in The Hague,...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 03/2016
Tchaikovsky’s opulent G major Sonata has all too often been seen as inflated and over-long. But in the right hands...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2016
I didn’t manage to catch Vol 1 of Jan Vermeulen and Veerle Peeters’s Schubert duets series, nor have I heard...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2016
The sensitivity, tonal refinement and occasional micromanagement typifying Amir Katz’s Chopin Nocturnes, Ballades and Impromptus (Oehms) and Mendelssohn Songs Without...
Reviewed by Jed Distler 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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