Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
If you’re casting around for musical inspiration, you could do a lot worse than Carlo Gesualdo. A 16th-century prince and...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2015
Jeffrey Skidmore is not the first musician to be charmed by the cultural riches and musical heritage of Brazil, and...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2015
The manuscript concerned – MS1070 in the Royal College of Music – contains 42 pieces, all but three of them...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2015
This is one for those who have fixed views on the speed of 16th-century music: the marvellous 1989 recording of...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2015
A vast amount of interesting music by Alessandro Stradella (1639-82) remains unpublished, scarcely performed and unrecorded, but times could be...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2015
‘A Mozartian hotch-potch’ was my uncharitable first reaction when I glanced through the contents of this disc. Eating humble pie,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2015
When Wagner remarked of Carl Loewe in 1875 that ‘there is a serious German master’, he was more likely thinking...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2015
Of Lassus’s larger-scale cycles, the Prophetiae sybillarum is among the trickier ones to bring off. It sits in a limbo...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2015
By his own admission, Jake Heggie is a theatre composer who can make a drama of a song text, a...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2015
Nicolas Gombert (c1495-1560) was a significant composer of the post-Josquin generation and a singer disgraced from the Emperor Charles V’s...
Reviewed by Edward Breen 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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