Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
The three sonatas that make up John Field's Op. 1 were written around the turn of the nineteenth century, when...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 11/1990
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's three sonatas for viola da gamba must be among the very last solo pieces outside France...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1993
Now that Kenneth Gilbert's admirable recording of these works (8/86) seems to have been withdrawn, Suzuki's chief rival, so far...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/2000
Atys was Lully's fourth tragedie-lyrique and it was first staged in 1676 by the ''Academie Royale de Musique'' at the...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1987
It is with no disrespect to Broughton that I take the same impression from this score that most others have...
Reviewed by ptonks in issue: 5/1999
Diabelli's claim to fame has rested largely on his activities in the family publishing firm and, by association, Beethoven's variations...
Reviewed in issue 7/1995
Beethoven’s Horn Sonata – in its day successfully premiered by the famous Bohemian virtuoso and composer, Punto – is nevertheless...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1998
Suk's two full string quartets are very different works, and in their way they make a good introduction to a...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1994
The early 1960s were comparatively fallow years in Boult's recording career, but by 1969, when he achieved the age of...
Reviewed in issue 12/1988
For the English reader, the title perhaps obscures the contents of this disc. In 1579 the Duke of Ferrara, Alfonso...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 7/2008
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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