Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Rarely do orchestral collections such as this avoid mixing the well-known with the over-familiar, full marks, then, to BIS for...
Reviewed in issue 1/1993
I suppose all this may pass muster on the soundtrack of the new film from which it is taken, where...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1987
Marco Polo’s first two Sullivan discs offered ballet, concert and incidental music from the composer’s early days (6/93). Here we...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/1996
Little known outside Germany, Volker David Kirchner’s music tends towards the introspective and self-searching. The two works for string sextet,...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 13/1999
Occasionally a record comes along which proves so involving that one forgets one is reviewing it. These performances are so...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1993
Refinement is not a quality which one normally associates with the New York Philharmonic, even though it has been one...
Reviewed in issue 5/1993
Once you've discounted the typically adventurous coupling, Dohnanyi's third Mahler symphony on disc brings few revelations. This is a CQOI,...
Reviewed in issue 1/1993
Labels such as LSO Live bring altered priorities and fresh perspectives. When did a studio-based company last contemplate recording Brahms’s...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/2004
This is another exemplary addition to the Finzi Singers’ ever-expanding discography. The earliest offerings here comprise Even such is time,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1996
Put on the opening seconds of Bogoroditse Djevo ('Rejoice, O Mother of God') - a King's College Choir Commission from...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2000
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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