Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
One of EMI's earliest digital recordings, made in the Kingsway Hall, now emerges the more vividly on CD. It was...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1987
Astonishing as it may seem to us today, it was not until 1928 that a complete recording of Book 1...
Reviewed in issue 7/1995
These celebrated performances from Guido Cantelli and the Philhanmonia Orchestra have not been in circulation since the demise of World...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1989
Probably no major Haydn work is harder to “sell” today than his Italian oratorio Il ritorno di Tobia, composed for...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/2008
The Mozart family humour is not famous for its subtlety, and I should not be surprised if quite a lot...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1989
A certain amount of interpretative freedom is desirable in these dances, if not essential. Jarvi is, of course, a master...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1991
While von Otter is attending to serious matters in this selection, she only adds to her growing reputation in song....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1996
As some readers will know, Shlomo Mintz, still in his middle twenties, was born in Russia and brought up in...
Reviewed in issue 7/1985
Karajan’s last knight of the woeful countenance has had his artifical fangs removed, courtesy of DG’s Original-Image-Bit-Processing: with strings both...
Reviewed in issue 8/1996
Muti's new coupling of suites from Tchaikovsky's two major ballets is an attractive one. The ambience of the Fairmount Park...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1985
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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