Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
What this recital reports, basically, is an East-European musical tradition, from the folk-inspired forays in Mahler’s Wunderhorn settings (where Yiddish...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/2008
Cyprien Katsaris took the initiative when, in 2001, he set up his own label, having tired of the restrictions of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 2/2009
If the calendar has anything to do with it, 1984 would of course have been the year to pay a...
Reviewed in issue 9/1986
Coupling Ullmann and Schoenberg makes sense. Even in the desperate conditions of the concentration camp Theresienstadt, where his Rilke setting...
Reviewed in issue 11/1995
This is the second of Thomas Quasthoff’s Bach collaborations with this period-informed, modern-instrument ensemble, following a highly personal and distinctive...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 13/2007
Interest here centres on the songs by Vaughan Williams and Theodore Chanler. The Four Last Songs were written between 1954...
Reviewed in issue 5/1992
Eloquent soloists and delightfully pointed contributions from all members of the ECO under Sir Alexander Gibson's direction bring us highly...
Reviewed in issue 7/1984
After Handley's particularly fine recordings of the Sea Symphony and the Fifth Symphony, I find this new recording of the...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 9/1991
A product of the St Petersburg State Conservatory and later pupil of Kim Kashkashian and Nobuko Imai, Tatjana Masurenko is...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2009
Hearing again Sir Andrew Davis’s magnificently unforced and deeply moving 1992 recording of Elgar’s Second has merely confirmed its exceptional...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2003
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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