Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
If you are collecting Naxos’s super-bargain Lutoslawski releases this, the third in the series, should be of particular interest, containing...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1997
Ligeti’s continuing series of piano Etudes is one of the few compositions from the past quarter-century to be approaching repertory...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2004
This disc, the first in a new series, exemplifies Sigiswald Kuijken’s highly selective and considered approach to Bach’s cantatas. By...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2006
Pietro Antonio Locatelli, born in Bergamo in 1695, was trained in Rome and lived from 1729 in Amsterdam. The 24...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1996
An axiom in the aesthetics of eschatology has it that Hell is good value and Paradise rather a liability. Perhaps...
Reviewed in issue 5/1992
Written by a lifelong chorister (now a tenor at Westminster Abbey) and performed by a choir of 22 young experts,...
Reviewed in issue 11/1998
It’s common enough for reviewers simply not to review a disc that falls well short of the mark. In this...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2008
This CD provides a quite astonishing recording debut for a young Russian virtuoso, barely 15 at the time this record...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1993
‘Put a real opera libretto into my hands, and in a few moments it will be composed,’ wrote Mendelssohn to...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/2006
In 1993 Marco Polo issued a pair of CDs of “Lokomotiv-Musik”. They concentrated on Viennese-style dance music, whereas this new...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/2006
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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