Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Setting up as a viable and much cheaper alternative to the Hyperion Schubert Edition, Naxos proposes, like its coeval, to...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2000
It is a tribute to the quality of Sir Colin Davis's pioneering set of Berlioz's epic opera that it has...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1994
It may be at the risk of opening the flood-gates of the correspondence pages to say so, but to my...
Reviewed in issue 8/1990
This is a portrait of a genre characterised by tuneful responses to the idea of lamenting. While Buxtehude’s music takes...
Reviewed in issue 10/2001
Macdowell's Second Piano Concerto, with its luxuriant romanticism and darkly eddying figurations, once enjoyed considerable popularity before a severer age...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1993
Sneaking back into contention on the budget Encore label, André Previn’s first, 1973 version of the Eighth would sit just...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2008
The Alto label here offers three Elgar recordings not previously available in Britain, two of which are of outstanding quality....
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2009
In live performance, Theseus Game (2002-03) offers clear visual contrasts: an ensemble of 30 players has two conductors, and there’s...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/2004
The Honegger symphonies have been well served on CD in recent years. Both the Symphony for Strings (No. 2) and...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1994
In Mozart and above all Wagner, Daniel Barenboim has few peers. The pianist-conductor has come late to recording Mahler symphonies,...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 6/2006
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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