Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
The market may have something to say about this. The first track and the last are just the sort of...
Reviewed in issue 9/1997
Though only Dvorák’s Serenade is familiar here, and is given a performance of great friendliness and charm, a firm historical...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/2010
This EMI issue offers absolutely first-class sound with splendid definition and range. I wrote at length about the performances on...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1987
A state-of-the-art recording of such realism and naturalness that one soon forgets that one is at home and not in...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1988
The indefatigable Gerard Schwarz continues his invaluable pioneering work on behalf of American music with this second volume of orchestral...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1994
Now that it no longer matters (if ever it did) whether Arthur Bliss’s Piano Concerto was an absurd anachronism in...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/2001
The masterpieces for piano quartet can be counted on the fingers of two hands: two by Mozart, one by Schumann,...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 1/1994
Laurent Korcia is a pretty considerable fiddler. He plays a 1719 Stradivarius with great aplomb and succulent timbre, and he...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2005
Like the Andras Schiff recording of Mozart piano works issued for the bicentenary (5/92), this disc was recorded in the...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1993
In his illuminating booklet-essay Stephen Hough remarks that Schubert’s individualism, in extreme contrast to Beethoven’s, is ‘a withdrawal into solitude...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1999
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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