Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Oedipus Rex was conceived as an opera without drama or movement, in which the narrator gives the game away before...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 13/2005
The gaps in the list of Haydn symphonies available on CD are gradually being filled, and this highly enjoyable new...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1989
Hyperion has done Byrd proud: to Davitt Moroney’s award-winning traversal of the complete keyboard music we can now add 13...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 4/2010
Both Matthias Goerne and Alfred Brendel have recorded Winterreise before, Goerne with Graham Johnson, Brendel with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Their coming...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/2004
When the Posthorn Serenade has prompted so many excellent versions recently, on CD as well as LP (see above), it...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1986
What I imagine happened here was that a live performance of the Lyric Symphony in Prague was so well received...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1996
The organization that was “as close as your nearest telephone” is now as close as your nearest CD player –...
Reviewed in issue 11/1996
This is not a record for the purists but, accepted for what it offers, it is an enjoyable one. The...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1988
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 8/2003
Ten years on and we can now relive every second of an unrepeatable musical marathon. Celebrating the new millennium (and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2010
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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