Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Ever since her debut recital five years ago, which AB hailed as ‘one of the most exciting ... from any...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/2001
Once again the Hyperion Schubert Edition has literally surpassed itself. Elly Ameling, whose Schubert singing on disc over the years...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1990
The fact that this new record plays for 57'43'' as against the Talich/Bogunia's 39'28'' on Calliope is not just because...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1986
A first-class bargain, let down only by inadequate notes, the fact that the words of the vocal pieces are not...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1997
Among the many excellent features of the English Orpheus series, of which this issue is Vol. 20, is the provision...
Reviewed in issue 1/1994
Ravel’s Quartet, written in his late twenties, and Fauré’s, written in his late seventies, conform fairly closely to our expectations...
Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 8/2005
It may be getting dangerously close to saying precisely what I don't want to say about this set, but one...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1990
This super-budget Elgar Second is surely well worth anyone's money. As on Loughran's companion disc of the First Symphony (2/93),...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1993
Julian Lloyd Webber gives a creditable performance of these concertos in which he very ably directs the orchestra himself; the...
Reviewed in issue 12/1985
This is a terrific disc. Right from the very first bars of the invigorating Water Music Symphony (1984), one is...
Reviewed in issue 2/1998
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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