Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
There is something here I evidently don’t understand. The Upside-down Sailor is a very good title. You could help to...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2003
Here are two outstanding discs from Ronan O’Hora, a pianist of inward thoughtfulness and refined eloquence. Following his well-received collections...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 7/1997
Whatever its dramatic merits – and‚ make no mistake‚ a great performance can rivet sense – Rossini’s Bianca e Falliero...
Reviewed in issue 13/2001
Mobility and re-creation are key concepts in Tan Dun’s ‘opera within an opera’, although readers expecting gravy-train minimalism will be...
Reviewed in issue 7/1997
Volume 2 of Andante’s invaluable series traces a multifaceted tradition, a bewildering mix of paste and diamonds. What was once...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2005
Ivan March and Andrew Achenbach reviewed two previous Campion CDs of music by Matthew Curtis (3/03; 5/05). That this third...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/2006
Debut recital discs seldom engender such a positive impression as this offering from the young Japanese violinist, Kyoko Takezawa. In...
Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 2/1993
Collectors will recall that Ton Koopman’s complete Bach cantata series hit the buffers in 2000, with Warner withdrawing its support...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 0/0
Two figures in particular haunt the second volume of Chandos’s survey of Rachmaninov’s songs – Feodor Chaliapin and Rachmaninov himself....
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1996
The perhaps idle thought struck me that there is something faintly incongruous in a Joyful Company of Singers electing to...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1999
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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