Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Lars-Åke Franke-Blom (b1941), a native of Norrköping in Sweden, is a name new to me. He studied in Stockholm under...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2003
Whatever difficult circumstances surrounded Mozart's relations with Dejean, who commissioned the flute quartets, there is no evidence that they affected...
Reviewed in issue 7/1994
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-69) deserves better than the label of an Interesting Historical Figure who provides some sort of bridge in...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1993
Jesus' Blood never failed me yet is built on the idea of untainted religious conviction: the fragile, trusting voice of...
Reviewed in issue 10/1993
Ferdinand Ries (1784- 1838), pupil, friend and biographer of Beethoven, made London his home from 1813 to 1824. The Piano...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 9/2009
When it comes to reviewing vintage live per- formances, ‘being there’ can occasionally cloud one’s judgement. However, in the case...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 9/2003
La Contadina was a big hit in the eighteenth century. Although Johann Adolph Hasse had yet to compose his finest...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/1999
I like the comment by Emanuel Ax quoted in the booklet: ‘From the moment Rubinstein walked on stage you knew...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/2003
If I'd been asked to identify the composer of ''Les morts'' from its strange, exploratory opening, my first guess would...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1989
It would be hard to think of a more demanding sequence of arias for lyric soprano than this wonderful collection....
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2011
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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