Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Enthusiasts may already possess Bliss’s two mature string quartets in the Delmé Quartet’s superb Hyperion coupling from 1985. Now come...
Reviewed in issue 9/2002
James MacMillan’s trumpet concerto Epiclesis – meaning ‘prayer’ or ‘invocation’ – is built round a basic contrast between expansive meditation...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2000
Mendelssohn completed his First Cello Sonata during the autumn of 1838. Like the Variations Concertantes which predate it by almost...
Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 10/1992
A source of perpetual admiration in this endlessly rewarding series is the sheer range of repertoire Christopher Herrick gets through....
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2010
We have become so used to thinking of JS Bach’s youngest son Johann Christian as a purveyor of mid-Classical elegance...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/2004
Though reissued at budget price, neither of these versions of the Symphonie fantastique really provides the value that is to...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1990
Schubert's “Great C major” is a symphony which cannot be learnt; a conductor either feels it in his bones or...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2007
The reasonably healthy listing of discs under Alkan's entry in the current Gramophone Classical Catalogue is sufficient proof that his...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 8/1993
Antonin Kubalek was born in 1935 in Czechoslovakia but has lived in Canada since 1968. He has already made two...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1992
A more apposite coupling might have been two Russian “in memoriam” piano trios (Tchaikovsky’s written in memory of Nikolai Rubinstein,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2011
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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