Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
As IF explained in his review of the LP, the music on this recording was at one time a closely-guarded...
Reviewed in issue 7/1985
All four sonatas on Uchida's new disc come from the 1774–5 set of six which were the first the 18-year-old...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1988
Since settling in Armenia in 1947 at the age of eight (he was born in Lebanon), Tigran Mansurian has been...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 5/2006
There is no shortage of good recordings of Also sprach Zarathustra a work that needs CD to do its orchestration...
Reviewed in issue 4/1990
Of the 27 instruments used in this ‘mixedmedia’ programme‚ six are held by the Musical Instrument Museum of Leipzig University....
Reviewed in issue 13/2002
‘A voice distinguished, among other qualities, by its rarity’. Michael Parouty, in Hugh Graham’s elegant translation, is writing, at the...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2004
The surprise element in this formidable programme is provided by Ignaz Friedman. And as befits the work of a legendary...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1992
I found this a distressing experience. Strauss's pieces can have seldom been played with such virtuosity, even by the same...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1993
That Claudio Arrau, 87 this year, still has plenty to tell us about Mozart is not in doubt. What you...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1990
The South African composer Hans Roosenschoon, now in his mid-thirties, is showing encouraging signs of reacting constructively to several very...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1986
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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