Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
In the Beethoven the shock of the old comes right at the start, long before the entry of Monica Huggett...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1994
Fifteen years ago the existence of the Neumeister Collection – a compendium of 82 organ chorale preludes including 38 by...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/2000
Saint-Saëns was greatly regarded in his time but his reputation has slipped in our own, when ready tunefulness, elegance, craftsmanship...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/2007
This somewhat controversial staging opened earlier this year to a mixed reception. It treats the ever-elusive work very seriously indeed,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2003
If we are right to celebrate or commemorate the major anniversaries of the great musicians, and surely we are, the...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1990
What remarkable talent is shown by the 14-year-old Kapell in his incomplete reading of Beethoven’s Third Concerto. That brilliance, allied...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/1998
Perhaps because of its serious demeanour, Alan Rawsthorne's music has always been something of a minority interest. Today, 14 years...
Reviewed in issue 9/1985
There is, as yet, no completely recommendable Brahms First on CD and this new version from Paita does not greatly...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1986
In an introductory note, the composer welcomes this, 'the first major recording of my choral music from a German-based choir'....
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2002
It has been a whole year since the first disc of Staier's Scarlatti series (which figured in my most recent...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1993
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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