Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
This is the third volume of a complete Percy Whitlock series, filled out with transcriptions of light orchestral works in...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 1/2000
Berlioz's obsessional love-victim is here bullied into ungrateful sanity. Paray will brook neither melancholy lingering nor neurotic mood-swings: his is...
Reviewed in issue 9/1993
In his characteristically enthusiastic and scholarly sleeve-note for this new recording of Haydn's two cello concertos, H. C. Robbins Landon...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 11/1983
A well-chosen programme and an attractive proposition for anyone wanting to extend their collection with a representative group of Russian...
Reviewed in issue 5/2001
Telemann's orchestral suites (or overtures, as they are more correctly termed) represent the apogee of a genre which the German-speaking...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2007
Most of the songs on this record are 'discards' from Britten cycles which have surfaced since his death and have...
Reviewed in issue 7/1987
The voices are fresh and the minds mature. Singers and pianist have a feeling for the style, its delicacy and...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2008
Forming their trio in 1987, these three young French musicians chose Wanderer because of their affinity with German repertory alongside...
Reviewed in issue 6/2001
Louis Kaufman began recording in the 1920s (for Gennett and Edison) and until the 1950s was fairly frequently represented in...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1992
If you will only accept performances of Berg's Chamber Concerto that make the long repeat in the finale, the issue...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1991
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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