Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Although the first of these two discs is titled ‘Complete Works for Piano’, the first thing one notices from the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2003
This is a memento of an extraordinary occasion – John Cage’s last concert appearance on July 23rd, 1992, in the...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/2000
These two releases (both of which present a number of works not otherwise in the catalogue) make a useful complementary...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/1992
As the earliest surviving complete polyphonic setting of the 'turba' passages in a Passion, this work has a significant place...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 3/1987
A performance recorded in Munich in 1963 had the same Arabella, Mandryka and conductor (DG, 11/95 – nla). That production...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2006
Both these releases qualify as essential listening. Though composed about 15 years apart, NUN and Ausklang have much in common....
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/2008
All the music in this new disc from Deutsche Harmonia Mundi is currently available elsewhere in The Classical Catalogue and...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1991
As Elgar himself said to the young Boult after a triumphant performance of the Second Symphony in 1920 – till...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2002
As befits a comedy of manners with an exceptionally precise musical setting – and we’re talking about mood, not date...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 1/2010
A well-contrasted programme of late Haydn piano trios in sympathetic performances makes for a tempting proposition. I particularly enjoyed the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/1999
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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