Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Released in celebration of John McCabe’s 70th birthday, this splendid recital is a timely reminder of what we will soon...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2009
No talk here of historically informed performances. “We simply look at the notes Mozart wrote down, and start from there,”...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 13/2011
Eileen Joyce was born to impoverished parents scratching not quite a living out of the Australian desert; the story used...
Reviewed in issue 11/1987
To listen to these five CD reissues of classic Viennese operettas is to revisit what seems like a golden age,...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/1995
For almost a quarter of a century Menuhin's recording of Bach's three most popular violin concertos has been a staple...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1985
Israel- and American-trained after leaving Lithuania, Wainberg emerges as firm fingered as minded in the Humoresque and Romances, albeit inclined...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1999
Tenor Toby Spence is the featured artist in this recital but the biggest work, taking up the second half of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2008
Mozart was without doubt the greatest composer of music for wind instruments, either as soloists or as members of an...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 4/1993
We can argue till the combined harvesters come home about the emotional content of Shostakovich's symphonies; but there is no...
Reviewed in issue 9/1992
On the evidence of this disc there is no reason to dispute the Grove Dictionary claim that Sigismondo d’India was...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/2003
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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