Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Tatyana Nikolaieva was in at the birth of Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues, and she made them one of the corner-stones...
Reviewed in issue 2/1995
Dimitri Terzakis’s undemonstrative fusion of Greek traditional elements with post-war western techniques gradually takes shape in the works featured here....
Reviewed in issue 12/1998
Regular readers will know that I’ve often sung the praises of Albert Sammons’ 1929 account of Elgar’s Violin Concerto with...
Reviewed in issue 5/2002
Still relishing the rich fruits of Bach’s prolific first year in Leipzig (1723)‚ Masaaki Sukuki brings us four more fine...
Reviewed in issue 2/2002
Nobody but a reviewer, of course, should try to listen to either of these issues straight through: it would be...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1987
This is the first CD version of Mahler's Sixth Symphony. It makes a big, robust sound, less refined than the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1985
This is a spacious view of Schubert's music for piano trio. The Fontenay Trio are a gifted ensemble of young...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1989
Listening to these bright, effervescent but by no means lightweight performances, the first word that sprang to mind was “sane”....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2007
Sir Adrian Boult's unashamedly old-fashioned, but immensely enjoyable set of Brandenburgs dates from the early 1970s. After the invigoratingly robust...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2000
On the face of it‚ Jenö Jandó has taken his time over Schubert. At least‚ his Schubert recordings have been...
Reviewed in issue 4/2002
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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