Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Listeners to this attractive CD need to know from the outset that what they are hearing is only partly Delalande...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 07/2015
The first two instalments of Trevor Pinnock’s series with the RAM Soloists Ensemble featured whole Austro-German symphonies arranged in chamber...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2015
Mirabile dictu: a release of four Havergal Brian symphonies – cause for celebration in itself – two of which have...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2015
The eye is a great deceiver. Watch these Lucerne Festival Brahms performances and you might think you are in the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2015
As co-founder of the London Sinfonietta in 1968, David Atherton has been responsible for several Birtwistle premieres down the decades:...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2015
The booklet’s claim ‘inspired by William Shakespeare’ is only really true of the Roméo et Juliette excerpt and the Lear...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015
Chandos’s new release continues a potential Berlioz cycle from Sir Andrew, following his well-received Overtures disc with the Bergen Philharmonic...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015
Listening to this entrancing and yet deeply affecting performance of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, it is easy see why, with all...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2015
As ever with Martin Haselböck, the overall agenda on this disc centres firmly on historic performance practice. After his series...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2015
Recorded live in Riga in front of an exceptionally well-behaved audience, soloist Thomas Gould (leader of the Aurora Orchestra and...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach 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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