Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Sor packed a great deal into his 61 years of life: musical studies at Montserrat, army service, politically enforced exile,...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1987
At this stage of his career it is good to hear Pavarotti in a new role on disc, even if...
Reviewed in issue 10/1997
The Variations and Falstaff make a good Elgar coupling, both being picturesque and illustrative as well as providing over an...
Reviewed in issue 9/1987
I was brought up on the Halle's Viennese concerts, and it provides a welcome exercise in nostalgia to listen to...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 9/1992
Verdi, who always maintained that the proper function of the Italian composer was to write vocal music, produced only one...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1986
Choosing between the Alban Berg and Orlando discs depends on whether it's the Dvorak or the Smetana that interests you...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 3/1992
Mad World was the first film to be presented in the modified single-lens version of Cinerama and remains one of...
Reviewed in issue 1/1998
There are those who say that once they had heard Ponselle in the flesh they never wanted to hear her...
Reviewed in issue 10/1989
Schoeck's one-act opera, Penthesilea is an astonishing and masterly score. It seems barely credible that a work so gripping in...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1995
On the strength of its title alone, this disc has much to recommend it: seventeenth-century music from the 'regions' habitually...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1993
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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