Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
This extraordinary recital, in which Thibaudet brings his technical mastery and fine musicianship to music which has only lately been...
Reviewed by kshadwick in issue: 6/1997
Winner of the 2005 Chopin Competition and with two highly acclaimed discs behind him already, Rafað Blechacz is a rising...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2009
This welcome reissue is of two of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s most rewarding orchestral compositions, which complement each other very...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/2003
There have been fine recordings of Shostakovich's penultimate and antepenultimate opuses sung by Evgeni Nesterenko—indeed the Michelangelo Suite won a...
Reviewed in issue 7/1993
In 1853-54 he produced this set of musical portraits, character sketches of members of her court. Even if we could...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/2000
This is uncommonly fine sounding Brahms. The recording‚ made in Toronto‚ is full and warm‚ with excellent balance between...
Reviewed in issue 10/2002
This is a curiously, at times maddeningly, uneven recital. At his best Gorne is a persuasive, silver-tongued interpreter, at his...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1997
Henryk Gorecki (b. 1933) has become one of the most significant exponents of what is often called 'the new simplicity'....
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1991
After the last war, Wilhelm Furtwangler was invited to conduct in Chicago, and although political pressures made his visit a...
Reviewed in issue 7/1993
Faure was the first composer—ahead of Debussy, Schoenberg and Sibelius—whose music inspired by Maeterlinck's Pelleas et Melisande was to reach...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1988
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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