Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Though a Ravel devotee, I must confess that my first reaction to the appearance of this record was to think,...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1986
Recordings of Classical-period instrumental music from France are rare, but one composer who has fared marginally better than most is...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/2004
Michelangeli once devoted a whole DG LP to Beethoven’s E flat major Sonata Op 7‚ not because his reading was...
Reviewed in issue 7/2002
Of course, Vlado Perlemuter, who was giving concerts in the 1920s, represents a very different style of Chopin playing to...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 4/1990
I think we're on to a winner with this record: for years, now, parish groups, amateur choral societies professional choirs...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1989
It is clear right from the start, with the almost aggressive snarling brass and thudding drums of the opening Toccata,...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 12/1995
From having been the standard version, the reorchestrated scoring of Faure’s Requiem has almost become the exception among performances, at...
Reviewed in issue 1/1996
It is good to have Goldmark's Rustic Wedding Symphony in the CD catalogue at last, a work admired by Brahms...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1992
Unusually popular repertoire for Hyperion; but the special interest here is Pluto, commissioned by the Halle’s outgoing director Kent Nagano...
Reviewed in issue 8/2001
Although Sommernacht, the glorious Violin Concerto and operas such as Penthesilea and Massimila Doni are great achievements, it is his...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1994
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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