Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
For me, Solomon’s 1952 recordings of Schumann’s Carnaval and the Brahms Sonata in F minor are essential for the desert...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 7/1997
There’s something strangely captivating about hearing Jan Garbarek and the Hilliards chase each other across the centuries to the music...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2010
Decca followed this CBS recording with Kiri Te Kanawa's selection and, issuing the CD in quick order (410 004-2DH, 7/83),...
Reviewed in issue 7/1985
Five solo flutes is not a sound you hear every day, and when those flutes are mellow-toned baroque-style instruments, all...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/1997
Christus am Oelberge (‘Christ on the Mount of Olives’) is a curious piece, reflecting much that was characteristic of Beethoven...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/2000
Robert Shaw won the Gramophone Award for the best choral recording of the year with his performance of Verdi's Requiem...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/1988
Collectors already following these artists' on-going series of the Mozart piano concertos will no doubt take this new disc on...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1993
The music at St Mark’s‚ Venice in the early 17th century yields seemingly inexhaustible riches‚ upon which this attractive programme...
Reviewed in issue 10/2001
What was successful in Book 1 (11/00) is just as successful here. And to his previous line-up of four keyboards,...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 1/2001
This CBS compilation would seem an attractive proposition: it includes what most music-lovers would regard as three out of four...
Reviewed in issue 1/1986
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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