Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
A triangular flash in the top lefthand corner of the cover of this CD carries the somewhat brazen statement ‘Rossini’s...
Reviewed in issue 10/2002
Robert Jones's Fourth Booke of Ayres of 1609 is headed ''A Musicall Dreame'', and this is the title for the...
Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 12/1990
This recording makes an unusual migration from EMI's Eminence label to the slightly cheaper CfP series. Litton includes the linking...
Reviewed in issue 9/1992
Tchaikovsky took a friendly interest in the young Ippolitov-Ivanov, who had for some years been a pupil of rimsky-Korsakov adn...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1985
This reissue (as in the case of the other operas in this series) brought back many happy memories of watching...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1992
I enjoyed these discs with more provisos than in most of the previous issues in the Kodaly's evolving Haydn cycle....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1994
Lavish packaging in the shape of a richly illustrated book detailing the history and design of the 1751 Dupont organ...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/2011
Opera librettos, like Hollywood films, are notoriously indifferent to the true representation of historical events and cavalier in their treatment...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1986
Under 45 minutes of music here, but few customers should complain as they listen to such powerful performances of four...
Reviewed in issue 10/1984
Comfortably recorded with a natural pit/stage balance – as were its predecessors in Hamburg’s unfolding live Ring (8/09, 3/10) –...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 13/2011
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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