Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
‘This recording pays homage to the tradition of these pieces,’ says Michael Tilson Thomas in an introduction to this 12-item...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2015
Two discs of Telemann concertos and ouverture-suites, both by ensembles of similar size, even with a work in common (an...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07
There are good things here and Altus has achieved a decent match between two separate acoustics: the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2015
Competition is pretty intense as far as the Lemminkäinen Suite is concerned, not least from Ondine’s own Leif Segerstam (7/96)...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2015
After the epic outrage and defiance of the ‘war’ symphonies, Nos 7 and 8, Shostakovich’s Ninth seemed deliberately designed to...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2015
There was a time when Schubert’s Great C major Symphony seemed an interpretatively elusive work, which explains why such store...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2015
This, the third volume of Friedemann Eichhorn’s traversal of the violin concertos of Pierre Rode, takes in his heyday in...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 07/2015
Another month, another complete Daphnis et Chloé. It was only in May that I warmly welcomed the recording by the...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2015
No, I hadn’t either. And my guess is that, unless aware of CPO’s five earlier volumes of Dora Pejačevic´’s music,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015
It adds something to journey through this amazing cycle of symphonies in sequence and in relatively quick succession. The recent...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2015
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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