Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
The glorious Hansel on the classic Karajan recording for EMI of Humperdinck’s opera, a famed Donna Anna, Agathe, Elisabeth, Elsa...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: /2000
This disc completes Christophe Coin’s three-disc survey of Bach cantatas which include an obbligato part for the five-string violoncello piccolo....
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1996
Here is one of the most welcome of the BBC’s raids on its own archives. Few top-flight virtuosos did as...
Reviewed in issue 12/1996
''A thing of beauty is a joy forever.'' Of no singer could that be more truly spoken than of Seefried....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1993
One of the most striking features of the Franz Schubert Quartet's new issue of Mozart string quartets is their remarkable...
Reviewed in issue 6/1994
Compulsive disorders make a fascinating subject for an opera, as Edward Rushton’s The Shops seeks to demonstrate. This revolves around...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 9/2008
Recordings of Zemlinsky's operas have moved on from the powerful double bill of his maturity—Eine florentinische Tragodie and Der Zwerg—to...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1991
The two sonatas and the Concerto date from very different periods in Miaskovsky's long and prolific career, the First Sonata...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1994
Reinhard Goebel has put together an imaginative sequence of pieces by Biber, Schmelzer and Walther—all, to a greater or lesser...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1991
According to the biographical note Minoru Nojima's career is centred on America and his native Japan rather than on Europe—which...
Reviewed in issue 10/1990
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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