Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
The mono recordings here are variable. The Beethoven Piano and Wind Quintet is distant and subfusc, and not ideally balanced,...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2005
You will notice rather a lot of 'recons.' or 'arr.' in the heading. That is because in eighteenth-century England, when...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1994
Pascal Rogé begins Debussy’s First Etude promisingly. He shapes the left-hand “five-finger exercise” in an appropriately plodding manner and plays...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2010
Here’s a singer who has reached complete maturity as a singer and artist, revelling in her vocal and interpretative powers....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1997
The programme spans more than three decades, the earliest item being the Elegy, Op 5, from 1949. It’s a seven-minute...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2011
Leonid Kuzmin is a 29-year-old Russian pianist whose hair-raising facility remains sadly uncomplemented by musical insight or discipline. Coyly introduced...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/1994
Some years ago Kurt Masur recorded all four Brahms symphonies with the Leipzig Gewandhaus (Philips, 9/79 – nla), and I...
Reviewed in issue 1/1997
Was there ever a more liberated or volatile pianist than Alfred Cortot? A true virtuoso in Liszt’s sense (‘one called...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1999
It was an excellent idea for Marco Polo to include in their British Light Music series a CD of items...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1995
Volume 2 of Russell Sherman’s cycle barks but never quite bites. Largely relying on bluster and bravado, his often provocative...
Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 4/1998
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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