Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Comparing the first few vocal phrases in these two performances, I began to suspect that, for once, Fischer-Dieskau would not...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1991
This recording of three English Serenades is made by American artists, would that English musicians might record comparable American works...
Reviewed in issue 10/1989
Most surprising about this recording of Frank Martin’s Der Sturm is its being the first complete account of an opera...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 8/2011
Apart from Tebaldi and Price‚ who shared some repertory‚ these singers represent very different strands and types of soprano singing...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 12/2001
There are many things I can forgive a CD label, but claiming that video games are “culturally significant” and assuming...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 5/2009
Handel's six Concerto grossi, Op. 3 are among the most colourfully varied ever to have been collected under a single...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1994
If you haven’t yet responded to my enthusiasm for Arabella Steinbacher’s Pentatone recording of Bartók’s Second Concerto with the Suisse...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2011
I first encountered the music of Rhian Samuel, professor of music at London’s City University, when her piano quartet Light...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2007
The third and final volume of Pascal Roge’s Poulenc cycle provides a glorious mix of styles and attitudes. You may...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1999
Subtitled ‘The Works for Organ’, Bowyer and Nimbus have extended this remit slightly to include some other keyboard works which...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/1999
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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