Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
A splendid recording debut for The New Company, a professional chamber choir of 12, directed by Harry Bicket, which is...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1999
If it is surprising that a female vocal ensemble specialising in contemporary music did not come about until 1986, there’s...
Reviewed in issue 6/2001
A curiosity in Enescu's output is the way that he sometimes bracketed under the same opus number works of the...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1992
“The Art of Chopin”, a two-disc film made by Gérald Caillat, makes a fascinating contribution to this year’s celebrations. Interspersing...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2010
As a student, Robert White went one day in the late-1950s to sing for Virgil Thomson, in his famous apartment...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 7/1997
Although it is not stated in the booklet‚ ‘Grand Ballet’ would seem to be from the soundtrack for ‘a film...
Reviewed in issue 10/2002
The photogenic 22-year-old German-Japanese pianist has won critical plaudits in these pages and elsewhere for her two earlier discs of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2010
This CD from the Norwegian cellist Truls Mork, winner of the 1983 Cassado Competition in Florence, was singled out for...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 8/1989
I am delighted that EMI have reissued these recordings of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and Orchestral Suites, for although the passage...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1992
This two-CD release concludes Ton Koopman’s complete survey of Buxtehude’s organ and harpsichord works, spread over five instalments. He plays...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 9/2009
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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