Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
I became obsessed with Sergey Taneyev’s Piano Quintet (1915) after hearing Pletnev, Repin, Gringolts, Imai and Harrell’s incendiary account (DG,...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2024
Born in Kharkiv, trained in France and Switzerland, spiritually inspired in India and harboured by the United States, Marcelle de...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2024
This remarkable sequence of compositions by Michael Finnissy (b1943) has several special qualities. The framing performances of different versions of...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2024
Just as the musical world has moved on from the polarity of authentic versus modern performance, here comes the A-word...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2024
I thoroughly enjoyed Trio Sōra’s nimble, clear-textured traversal of Beethoven’s six piano trios (Naïve, 12/20), although I found a few...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2024
The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, the brainchild of violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Tom Poster, has justified its name in several...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2024
Only the first panel of this absorbing triptych is advertised as a first recording, but Viktor Kosenko’s Sonata of 1927...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2024
‘Yes, “another” recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons!’ cries Le Concert de la Loge’s violinist director Julien Chauvin at the top...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2024
Shostakovich’s Thirteenth is sonically the most austere of all his symphonies: it features a bass soloist, a male choir and...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 06/2024
Reviewing Marek Janowski’s Beethoven cycle on Pentatone (2/21), Andrew Farach-Colton drew attention to its consistently clear articulation, ‘striking lack of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill 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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