Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
The Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey, invariably an inspired artist, here couples two of the greatest cello sonatas from the early...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2011
Robert Craft’s best rostrum work involves relatively small forces and transparent textures, such as the Octet, which is here given...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/2009
If, like me, you have been badly missing Alfred Brendel in Haydn since his retirement, let us celebrate a special...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/2011
Sergey Bortkiewicz is one of the lesser known of the many émigrés who escaped from Bolshevik Russia. In his case...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 6/0
In the old days, composers used to make lots of money by transcribing operatic numbers into all manner of musical...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1990
The title of this CD is something of an understatement: rare songs. Even the names of some of the composers...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 7/1999
Bernard Shaw hailed Puccini as the most likely successor to Verdi after just one hearing of Manon Lescaut. Subsequent British...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 0/0
As a way of making what may or may not be music, placing microphones into urban or rural environments and...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 6/2011
This is billed as Vol. 5 of a complete cycle of Beethoven’s quartets, and leaves me keen to hear further...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/1997
This set of Smetana’s orchestral works is the best possible antidote to an overdose of 19th-century angst. For here, despite...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2008
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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