Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Recorded in April 2002, this may be of interest as an update on Carreras’s voice and art; and let’s hope...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2003
The note accompanying this record claims that the Hanover Band ''uses authentic instruments and period principles of interpretation'' and that...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1989
It is good to see the Cello Concerto on CD at last though it is puzzling that a work of...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1993
Der Traumgorge (''Gorge the Dreamer'') should have marked an auspicious stage in the development of Zemlinsky's reputation. It was his...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1989
Barenboim's Images are very individual, pliant and imaginatively drawn. The opening of ''Gigues'' is probably slower than the modere that...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/1990
Not so much a recording of the music itself, but of an occasion. Berlin's Waldbuhne, an enormous open-air amphitheatre, was...
Reviewed in issue 9/1991
The stranger to the domestic catalogues is Jan Carlstedt, a Swedish composer now in his sixties who originally studied in...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1988
Discovered at the British Library by Nicole van Bruggen and Anneke Veenhoff is this forgotten, anonymous arrangement, from 1809, for...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 13/2010
This set dates back more than 30 years to 1969‚ a period when Suitner was recording a number of operas...
Reviewed in issue 13/2001
Although L'incoronazione di Dario is the seventh opera by Vivaldi to have been commercially recorded, our picture of his operatic...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1986
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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