Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
We have got used to the idea now that, coming from the Dunedin Consort, core works will not be quite...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue:
The degree to which conductors are more or less synonymous with particular works is a largely subjective matter, though few...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue:
Flamboyance and intelligence don’t always go hand in hand, though Max Emanuel Cencic possesses both qualities in spades. The photographs...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2015
György Ligeti’s Piano Concerto (1985‑88) has been threatening to transform itself into a modern composition lollipop and I, for one,...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 12/2015
As word began to trickle out from Fort Worth during the 2013 Van Cliburn Competition, her name kept coming up:...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2015
Developed and then fine-tuned in Leipzig over the last decade, Chailly.2 really does come with a different operating system. Briskly...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2015
Manfred Honeck has been looked on with favour in these columns since the late 1980s, when he directed a fine...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2015
Gianandrea Noseda’s Casella reappraisal for Chandos, among his most significant achievements to date, has radically shifted our perspectives on one...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2015
Metastasio’s serenata Il re pastore was devised for the domestic amusement of the Habsburgs at Schönbrunn in 1751. It had...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2015
The glowing textures of Harris’s classic anthem Faire is the heaven give way to an exuberant and rhythmically incisive account...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2015
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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