Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
In 1981 Menotti told me that he disapproved of Barber’s transcription of the famous Adagio into a choral piece and...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/2015
In the last few years the Bavarian Radio Choir and its conductor Peter Dijkstra has notched up a selective discography...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2015
The Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja doesn’t toe the line. Her performances of core repertoire are emotionally supercharged: some listeners balk...
Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 12/2015
Briefly subverting ‘What shall we do with the drunken sailor?’ into a tango has to be a Good Thing in...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2015
Here are the big names of 20th-century American music from an unfamiliar angle, and it’s all wonderfully played. Barber’s early...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/2015
A second ‘first’ recording of Shostakovich’s unfinished Violin Sonata of 1945? The explanation is that Sasha Rozhdestvensky and Jeremy Menuhin...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2015
Do you want a recording of Schubert’s miraculous chamber swansong with a double bass taking the second cello part? That’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2015
The first volume of Henk Guittart and his Gruppo Montebello’s series exploring the milieu surrounding Arnold Schoenberg’s Verein für musikalische...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 12/2015
University students may still snigger at his name (at least in the UK), but to listen to Samuel Scheidt’s Ludici...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2015
Readers may disagree, but I can’t supress the vague feeling on listening to this disc that Kaija Saariaho might just...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2015
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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