Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Often overlooked by conductors in the past, Bruckner’s D minor Symphony (Die Nullte) has seen something of a renaissance in...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2015
BIS’s extensive coverage of Sally Beamish continues with a disc of orchestral music largely written during 2003 07. The programme...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2015
The presence of the pioneering harpsichordist Wanda Landowska in early-20th-century Paris inspired many composers to write for her. Her instrument...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2015
Vieuxtemps was among the foremost of the post-Paganini generation of violinist-composers. That his music should be so little heard and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2015
In his accompanying notes to this live recording, Craig Sheppard quotes Kurt Sanderling’s comment that if Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2015
With his Chopin Mazurkas (see page 70) and an earlier Brilliant set of Scriabin sonatas, Dmitri Alexeev marks a return...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2015
Nicolai Lugansky is an impressive pianist, with a ravishingly beautiful sound and a technique that renders dense textures with perfect...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2015
Shani Diluka is a pianist whose playing throws open the doors to hitherto unimagined chambers within the realm of understatement....
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2015
For an entrée into the polyphonic world of Godowsky, Emanuele Delucchi’s programme could hardly be bettered – a representative, nicely...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2015
There’s a neat Cornelius Cardew quote about how best to approach the works of Morton Feldman: ‘Almost all Feldman’s music...
Reviewed by Kate Molleson 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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