Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Although competition among DVDs of chamber music is rarely intense, this new release does have rivals. In 2005 Testament released...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue:
Having already recorded Brahms’s First Sonata, Op 78, Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov complete the set with a performance of...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2015
First, hats off to the Belcea and Emerson quartets for astonishingly accurate and coordinated accounts of the Lyric Suite, even...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2015
The musicologist Stefano Aresi and his intrepid ensemble Stile Galante turn their microscope on the Milanese castrato Luigi Marchesini (1755-1829),...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2015
Not usually one to go overboard about Italians, Mozart was delighted with the singing of Francesco Benucci, star of Vienna’s...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2015
This is the fifth performance since 2004 you may be able to access of the first Ring opera under Simon...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2015
It’s wonderful to see Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta finally receiving its due. Peter Sellars’s quirky staging appeared at Aix-en-Provence this summer and...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2015
Rossini’s La gazza ladra, based on the story of a French peasant girl who was hanged for thefts later discovered...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2015
‘Pass by, epileptic dunghill without grandeur, hysterical trash-heap of plays and shows!’ The words are Fernando Pessoa’s in his ranting...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2015
Here we go again. Sven-Eric Bechtolf is another theatre director who doesn’t understand Così fan tutte. Correction: he understands it...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2015
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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