Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
As the Carmina Quartet point out in their booklet-notes, this is not the usual kind of quartet disc, but one...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 7/2010
Solti's collection of Verdi choruses is not derived from his various opera sets, but newly and resplendently recorded, with the...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1991
Opus 111’s Vivaldi series continues to expand at bewildering pace, as indeed it needs to if its aim of recording...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/2004
If I were pressed to nominate the greatest single acts in baroque opera, high on the list would be Act...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1997
Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death really divide into two for women and two for men‚ though there is no...
Reviewed in issue 10/2002
The flute and harp, each beautiful in itself and possessing Elysian associations, can together transport us into paradisal realms, and...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1993
The only thing to be done with Andrea Chenier, it is commonly argued, is to let three big, exciting and...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1987
If you want to be reminded just how great the three Tchaikovsky ballets really are – and why The Sleeping...
Reviewed in issue 8/1996
Rozsa's only symphony has an intriguing history. Written in 1930, when the composer was 23, it was his first major...
Reviewed by rseeley in issue: 6/1994
What is one to say except that this is another triumph for this superb partnership? For years Schreier has been...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1992
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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