Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
The unenlightened, lamented Adrian Mole will never ‘see Michaelangelo’s Mona Lisa. Nor will they thrill to a Brahms Opera.’ Perhaps...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2015
Without a full complement of sopranos ready to hurl out and sustain high Cs, a choir preparing to record Bruckner...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2015
It is over 40 years since the last recording of Bliss’s choral symphony Morning Heroes, written in 1930 as a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2015
That Biber’s massive 54-part Missa Salisburgensis of 1682 was for a long time carelessly attributed to Orazio Benevoli and dated...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2015
With all the trappings of secular commissions – including additional remuneration and an opportunity for luxuriant scoring – Bach wrote...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2015
The husband-and-wife duo of Leon Fleisher and Katherine Jacobson commence this one piano/four hand programme with Brahms’s singerless edition of...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2015
This set was to have been a birthday present for the great Czech pianist Ivan Moravec, who would have been...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2015
Young Armenian pianist Varduhi Yeritsyan is a more than eloquent advocate for Scriabin, powerful and lucid even in the composer’s...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2015
Befitting its extraordinary subject, Anne-Kathrin Peitz and Youlian Tabakov’s brilliant film about the French composer and hardline agent provocateur Erik...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2015
Julius Reubke was a remarkable talent whose life was cut tragically sort: he died in 1858 aged just 24. The...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas 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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