Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
“After Chopin,” wrote Paderewski, “Moritz Moszkowski best understands how to write for the piano” – a view reflected in these...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2009
This second tranche of EMI’s Karajan Edition takes us back to the post-war years in Vienna, to the world of...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1997
This recording (made after rather than during the 1962 occasion) is the first in a series celebrating Moscow’s International Tchaikovsky...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1998
Edward Gregson, for 12 years Principal of the Royal Northern College of Music (1996-2008), is here represented by a sequence...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2011
This is the best of the CD transfers of historic Ansermet recordings so far and anyone who wants to hear...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1985
The album title is that of the final song, Sor’s Las mujeres y cuerdas, with its caveat that both women...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1996
There are legions of recordings of this repertoire to choose from and you may not get the best performance of...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/1991
Inghelbrecht was in many ways a reliable conductor. That is, he could be relied upon to be demanding, bad-tempered, intransigent,...
Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 11/2002
This is a fascinating release—it brings an Ives masterpiece, Psalm 90, into the British catalogue for the first time; also...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/1991
Here is an attractive programme of late-baroque trio sonatas. The two Locatelli works are unpublished as is the G major...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1990
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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