Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
“A titanic composition by the standards of any period of musical history,” proclaims Bertil van Boer in his informative booklet-note,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/2010
The Labèque sisters offer a truly superlative account of the great F minor Fantasy in rich, warm-blooded sound. Rarely has...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 4/2008
A distinctly satisfying coupling, this: “two of the absolute ‘Matterhorns’ of the two composers”, as Lars Vogt himself puts it,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2010
We are so used to hearing the handful of really familiar Smetana works – The Bartered Bride, the string quartet...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 8/2007
This live recording from the 1956 Salzburg Festival captures Schwarzkopf’s art at its peak. It has always seemed an irony...
Reviewed in issue 12/1996
Although the Elgar is probably the selling-point of this issue, the Walton String Quartet stands in greater need of the...
Reviewed in issue 1/1987
Romain Descharmes is a 29-year-old French pianist admirably attuned to the more subtle and elusive sides of Ravel’s genius. A...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2009
Near the beginning of his EMI career Simon Rattle recorded his first The Planets. It is excellent, but next to...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2006
Bach's first biographer, Forkel, noted that the violin writing of the Sonatas, BWV1014-19 required a master to play it. Bach,...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1989
There was an old schoolboy conundrum: when is a concerto not a concerto? The answer, then concerned itself with Bach....
Reviewed in issue 3/1990
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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