Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Israel Nestyev's biography of Prokofiev (Oxford University Press)—still, for all its propagandizing, the most comprehensive we have—regrets that his music...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1985
Somewhere in the world's book of fairy stories there must be one about the girl who is ushered into the...
Reviewed in issue 9/1989
The charms of La vie parisienne, Manon and La boheme notwithstanding, Louise is the essential opera set in, and about,...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 9/1994
If these are bad films, as they surely are, then at least they are bad in a thoroughly old-fashioned way....
Reviewed in issue 4/1998
Of the opera sets which Callas remade for EMI (Norma and Tosca being the others), Lucia is the one in...
Reviewed in issue 10/1989
To call a performance “well made” might seem like a half-hearted compliment but in the case of Thomas Dausgaard's account...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2008
The first (and I suppose, for the forseeable future, last) British performance of Dargomizhsky's The Stone Guest in April 1987...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1989
At the end of 2000, Calliope issued a fascinating CD in which Yakov Kasman and Emmanuel Leducq-Barome were teamed with...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2002
A word about nomenclature. Holmboe composed 13 chamber concertos between 1939 and 1956 as a series with small-orchestral accompaniment, similar...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 4/2005
At the beginning Don Quichotte looks all set to be Massenet's Falstaff. It was not his final opera, but it...
Reviewed in issue 4/1992
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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