Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Vesselina Kasarova bases her recital of Handel arias on music sung by the brilliant castrato Giovanni Carestini (who was regarded...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2008
These are not the most earthily robust accounts of these two ballet scores on record, nor the most physically exciting,...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1987
Strange are the ways of record companies. They secure the world's most famous Italian tenor for his first recording of...
Reviewed in issue 5/1990
Although Montage was a notable success at the 1977 Proms, Edwin Roxburgh is as well known as a composition teacher...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/2006
Nothing in this discerningly planned Chopin recital is more enjoyable than the B flat minor Sonata. There is that essential...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1991
What do you think Paganini, whose unprecedented virtuosity sent the musical world into a frenzy and persuaded the simple-minded that...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1989
On reading Carsten Fastner’s profile of a composer who ‘consistently repudiates [the] complacent eclecticism which several of his colleagues use...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 10/2004
Notwithstanding the uncertainty over the origins of Bach's Trio Sonatas for organ (and Peter Williams discusses this in his typically...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/1990
This recording first appeared 17 years ago, and the passage of time hasn’t diminished the grandeur of the achievement of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/1997
I have never understood why Hindemith's Violin Concerto—that in C sharp written in 1939 rather than the 1925 Kammermusik No....
Reviewed in issue 4/1995
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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