Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Bernard Haitink, the most European of conductors, might seem an unexpected choice as principal conductor of America’s most high-powered orchestra,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2010
This unexpected and in some ways incongruous coupling is defended by the conductor on the grounds of stylistic diversity and...
Reviewed in issue 10/1997
Unlike Koopman and Suzuki, Philippe Herreweghe has provided (for Virgin and HM) a refreshing alternative to cantata completism over the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/2000
Volume 8 of the King's Consort's Vivaldi sacred music series gives the choir a rest and focuses on motets for...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2002
Glazunov’s Eighth Symphony’s arrival in 1905 was concurrent with one of Russia’s key revolutionary dates but there is nothing revolutionary...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2005
The Lindsay's approach to the first movement of the Death and the Maiden is highly charged and dramatic. They employ...
Reviewed in issue 7/1986
Written in the aftermath of World War II, Golgotha is the sacred counterpart to Tippett’s A Child of Our Time,...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 13/1998
The inauguration of a complete Chaliapin edition on CD is news. There have been plenty of recital-discs (EMI, Nimbus, Pearl,...
Reviewed in issue 5/2001
According to lutenist Elizabeth Kenny, the anonymous The Flying Horse, with its “ground bass spiced up with an exotic chord...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 13/2009
With the expansion of the French organ in the latter part of the nineteenth century came increased opportunities to use...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/1991
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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