Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Much has already been written about Gilbert Kaplan's extraordinary obsession with Mahler's Resurrection Symphony. A wealthy publisher and financier, he...
Reviewed in issue 1/1989
During 1995 Peter Maxwell Davies toured the USA with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. A British journalist, trying to contact him...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1998
After Cinderella (reviewed above), and one year before their final opus, The Sound of Music, Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote Flower...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 9/1999
Normal service resumes in Ton Koopman’s ambitious series of complete Bach cantatas. Volume 13 is the first under the Challenge...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2003
During the 50s and early 60s Maycuzynski (1914-77) became a matinee idol figure whose appearance conformed to everyone’s notion of...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2001
Organist Dominik Susteck’s realisation of Tierkreis (“Zodiac”, 1975) is almost certainly provoking quizzical eyebrows back at Stockhausen HQ. Susteck’s excellent...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 13/2011
Gina Cigna self-evidently divided her audiences. The prissy and the precise were and are alarmed by such an all-in singer...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1990
The First of Stanford’s three piano trios dates from 1889 and bears a dedication to his good friend, the pianist...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2011
“A strong and pleasing voice, in both high and low notes – a combination which one rarely encounters,” ran one...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 3/2009
There are few composers alive today with such distinctive musical personalities as Harrison Birtwistle. That's not enough of course—you could...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 8/1993
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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