Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
There’s a tempting-looking television documentary that is right up your street. So tempting, in fact, that you decide to video...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 5/2005
Having reviewed a less than satisfactory Carmina Burana recording last year, it’s heartening to report on something more considered. Just...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/2010
When Maurice Ravel’s orchestrations benefit so clearly from being played on modern instruments (see page 71), it may seem odd...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2006
Crespin's distinction is best savoured in the Sleepwalking scene. Lady Macbeth's haunted mind becomes the very substance of the voice,...
Reviewed in issue 1/1989
This isn’t just another Rasumovsky recording: the Brodskys manage to sound thoroughly individual without ever seeming eccentric or one-sided. They...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/2006
It is fascinating to compare this 2008 recording of Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta with the one that Kocsis...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 13/2010
It is now 37 years since Van Cliburn – described in 1958 by Time magazine in honest-to-goodness vulgarity as “Liberace...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1996
Schiotz’s singing was always the very epitome of silvery elegance. A Danish tenor in the mould of Britain’s Heddle Nash...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1997
It has become harder for interpreters to make their mark in what has become standard fare, yet both these conductors...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 1/2006
This is a very mixed bag – understandably so in that the time-span by composition date is some 20 years....
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1999
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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