Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Johann Caspar Kerll is one of many composers active at the Viennese court to have been influenced by the Italian...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/2000
This recording, featuring Madeleine Milhaud, is of historical importance. The composer’s widow was, of course, younger than he and, as...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1996
The two-piano repertoire is not extensive, so three big new works will be welcome to performers and devotees of the...
Reviewed in issue 12/1996
The 'baroque' guitar was a curious instrument, smaller than today's instrument and having a less pronounced waist, with five pairs...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/1990
Penderecki's Violin Concerto was first performed by its dedicatee Isaac Stern in 1977, and Stern subsequently recorded it with the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1988
Vierne's organ symphonies, the Third in particular, have fared singularly well on CD. If you already have Jeremy Filsell, David...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1994
The central panel of Messiaen’s “Tristan” trilogy is also the most direct translation of its source, which is saying something...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 5/2010
As Wilbert Hazelzet points out in his booklet note, Bach's chamber works for flute do not survive in convenient sets...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/2000
‘To revise or not to revise?’ is one of the oldest of all problems: the freshness of first thoughts pitched...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1997
This disc from Henry’s Eight is placed under the sign of Christmas. The most substantial work is the Mass by...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/1999
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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