Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Opera houses are on a hiding to nothing when staging Verdi’s Aida. Audiences crave the sort of spectacle usually reserved...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2015
The Strauss anniversary year might have offered a fair number of performances to keep FroSch-fanciers happy, but not much of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2015
This new issue enters a crowded field but on paper has some unusual characteristics to distinguish it. First is the...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2015
Here is that odious Child again, recorded in 2013, a few months before the recently issued live performance conducted by...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2015
Dorothea Röschmann has sung all the Mozart roles represented here at either the Vienna Staatsoper, the Metropolitan Opera, or both....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2015
When the young French cellist Edgar Moreau released his debut album last year (6/14) it was with a relatively soft...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2015
Finding a marketing angle on a new Vivaldi concerto release is sometimes an exercise in harmless deception, so it is...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2015
The close proximity of Simon Rattle’s latest survey of the symphonies with the majestic Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra only serves to...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2015
We have reached the sixth and final instalment in this fascinating series from Turku. It’s given over to just one...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2015
If some composers generate floods of discs when one of their anniversaries comes around, the centenary of Scriabin’s death has...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12q
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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