Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
There are two attractions here: the only current recording of the Short Symphony and a fine recording of Symphony No...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/2008
Though the Requiem will no doubt be its main selling-point, the disc’s principal recommendation lies in the other works included,...
Reviewed in issue 5/1998
The article in the booklet, headed “The Berliners and the Neapolitan”, is mainly about Riccardo Muti. A different article could...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 5/2010
Tchaikovsky’s last opera has eluded successful recording, and still does. A Bolshoi version (HMV Melodiya, 8/78 – nla) was notable...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1997
These two DVDs are the stuff of legends. They derive from Austrian TV broadcasts of concerts at the Vienna Festivals...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2004
Few lovers of Vivaldi's music can have overlooked the wealth of available recordings of the six works on this new...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1991
A brief reminder that these are recordings of performances at the Vienna State Opera, made with primitive equipment and under...
Reviewed in issue 2/1995
Three years after its recording, the release of the Kubelik Creation is something of a non-event. In terms of resources,...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 5/1988
There is a crossover feel to this collection in that it sounds like orchestral arrangements from other genres (musicals, films,...
Reviewed in issue 12/1998
We cannot blame Metronome for hanging this release’s marketability on the eminently saleable figure of Jan Vermeer‚ whose paintings have...
Reviewed in issue 9/2001
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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