Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Recorded live during the...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2018
Vladimir Jurowski has a beef with ballet companies and the 1895 revision of Swan Lake. In last month’s enthralling ‘The...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2018
Bells up; with the greatest vehemence; hurriedly, ie carelessly throughout. Mahler’s Fifth is peppered with such imprecations, as well as...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2018
The follow-up to their impressive showing in Per Nørgård’s First and Eighth Symphonies (8/14) finds Sakari Oramo and the Vienna...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2018
For all the appreciable virtues offered by recent contenders in the Bach Sonatas and Partitas field, I cannot think of...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2018
The late Dmitri Hvorostovsky sang 10 roles at the Wiener Staatsoper. Nine of them are represented on this Orfeo disc...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2018
At the end of the day – which we have now reached for this live Hong Kong concert Ring cycle...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2018
Clearly one of Wieland Wagner’s great New Bayreuth nights. Orfeo is to be congratulated on putting it out despite the...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2018
In response to the first performance of Salieri’s Les Horaces (Versailles, 1786), an eyewitness reported ‘there cannot be a more...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2018
The retirement of John Copley’s 1974 production of La bohème was met with something approaching national mourning by many opera-goers,...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2018
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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