Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
''Der Mensch hat so eine Stimme'' (''The man has a tone of voice'') says Rocco of Florestan, and it's always...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1989
Kirkpatrick’s name is so closely associated with his classic book on Scarlatti and his recordings of Bach that it pulls...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1996
Generations of British organists will know of Gustav Merkel through the countless collections of very short and simple organ music...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/1997
“The most precociously gifted composer the world has ever known.” Annotator Julian Haylock justifiably celebrates a musical talent “which was...
Reviewed in issue 8/1998
Lassus completed his swan-song days before his death on June 14th, 1594. The decision to set 20 stanzas from Luigi...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/1994
With these impressive performances (on her beautiful-toned Amati) of the Solo Sonatas and Partitas Monica Huggett sweeps other baroque interpretations...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1998
The Spanish pianist, Santiago Rodriguez (a new name to me) was ''propelled into the international spotlight'', so we're told, after...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1987
Veteran enthusiasts of Alkan will need no introduction to Ronald Smith’s superlative 1977 recording of the complete Etudes, Op. 39...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 8/1997
The ever-versatile Daniel Barenboim puts his baton on one side and returns to the recording studio as pianist, here not...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: /2000
Retired Festival chief Wolfgang Wagner’s third Bayreuth production of his grandfather’s tricky comedy finally gains a commercial release nearly a...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 13/2008
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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