Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
I have long been – somewhat unfashionably, I suspect – an admirer of Alfredo Casella’s music (if not the man...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2010
The fourth cycle of cantatas, which constituted Vols 19 and 20, marked the end of Bach’s systematic liturgical ambitions. That...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2006
Of the two audiences that this disc is aimed at—percussion fans and John Cage enthusiasts—it will be the latter who,...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 8/1989
The Concierto para una fiesta was commissioned by a wealthy Texan, as a ‘coming-out-party’ present for his daughters, admirers of...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/2003
No pianist played closer to the edge than Vladimir Horowitz. And here, in this invaluable reissue of performances dating from...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2008
The Ferrara Ensemble offers here a very well conceived cycle of chansons and motets d’amour‚ engagingly reflected upon in Jacques...
Reviewed in issue 13/2002
Music as a simultaneity of perspectives has long been central to the thinking of Elliott Carter, making him an ideal...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 1/2007
This was La Scala’s Japanese production. Two of the principals, the designers of sets, costumes and lighting and the producer...
Reviewed in issue 5/2001
The contents of these discs are, in essence complementary. Erato score with the first recordings of Carter's two most recent...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1990
The latest release from the award-winning viol consort Phantasm sees them turning to the consort song repertory for the first...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2000
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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