Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Hard on the heels of Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s DG recording of Mozart’s Ottoman Singspiel (DG, 8/15) comes this radical version from...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2015
Thornton Wilder was one of the most musical of playwrights yet throughout his life rejected requests to set his plays...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2015
This new recording of Gluck’s most influential opera is also Franco Fagioli’s first release for DG since since he signed...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2015
There aren’t many grand opéra boxes left unticked by Herculanum, Félicien David’s only work in the genre and the 10th...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2015
If you hadn’t guessed this Arena di Verona production of Carmen was by Franco Zeffirelli, any doubts would be swept...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2015
I’ve enjoyed this disc a lot and return to complete playings of it with pleasure. That says much about the...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: AW2015
‘Steer for the deep waters only’, exhorts the poet in the last movement (‘The Explorers’) of A Sea Symphony, and...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2015
Aida is the most classically concise of the great 19th-century grand operas yet it remains the one most closely associated...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: AW2015
It’s impossible to express too emphatically just how good the girls of the Wells Cathedral School Choralia sound on this...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW2015
With the approach of the year’s end comes this smorgasbord of seasonal fare focusing on four of the 12 days...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW2015
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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