Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Everyone who has sat at a piano stool at a tender age will find old friends amongst the pieces comprising...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1986
Recorded in 2004‑06, this Mozart piano concerto cycle first appeared on the small Pro Musica Camerata label. In the main,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 9/2011
The Three Choirs are very much at the heart of the English choral tradition, and here are two of them...
Reviewed in issue 12/1988
Ever since first encountering Gavrilov at the Touraine Music Festival in the mid-1970s, I've thought him a player of infinite...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1992
It is good to have a second view of an ambitious modern symphony which, as I said when reviewing the...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1997
The 1952 Edinburgh Festival was the first that I attended, and I vividly recall that one of its most engaging...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1988
For a long time, this setting of the St John Passion was taken to be a work of Handel's youth—written,...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1988
This reissue is valuable in including the only available recording of the Op. 66 Scenes historiques, which are, as it...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1985
With two discs released in as many months, the Italian early-music scene has truly got its teeth into Gesualdo. I...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2000
Lauded by Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Hanslick, and declared by Goldmark to have ''no equal and no superior among pianists, dead...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1989
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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