Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
What motivated Telemann to produce a succession of oratorios in the late autumn of his life is unclear. Perhaps, as...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1996
The suspicion is that the interest shown in the organ music of those composers who are more famous outside the...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 13/2010
The Fantastic Dances have never been too difficult to get hold of, but the fine Second Sonata is no longer...
Reviewed in issue 10/1988
It is probably not entirely coincidental that the two memorable performances from this latest instalment of Abbado's Beethoven cycle are...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1988
In Rainbow Body, the winning composition in the 2003 Masterprize competition, Christopher Theofanidis transformed a chant by Hildegard of Bingen...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2005
In this recent production from Barcelona’s lavish Gran Teatre del Liceu, stage director Gilbert Deflo uses the emblem of mirrors...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2003
There have been several excellent issues of Clementi's piano music on period instruments, such as those by Immerseel (Accent, 3/87)...
Reviewed in issue 9/1995
Like previous Dutton issues of Beecham, this one offers recordings from an interim period of his career which has been...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1999
Nothing like comparisons for putting things in perspective. “What a horrible sound!” I thought at the beginning of this, and...
Reviewed in issue 8/1998
I have commented before on Revelation’s lack of quality control. And yet, alongside some shockingly undistinguished issues, there have been...
Reviewed in issue 7/1998
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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