Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Jonathan Biss is a 23-year-old American pianist, winner of sev-eral awards, and heard here in EMI’s Debut series his performances...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2004
This disc is presented as if Prokofiev’s Second String Quartet were its main attraction, but it does in fact contain...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 5/2003
By comparison with the recent Guildhall Strings anthology (RCA, 3/92) which duplicates the Holberg Suite, the Two Elegiac Melodies and...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1992
An easy listen that toys with a comfortable mysticism. Franco Battiato’s music is warmly harmonized, hazily atmospheric and utterly synthetic....
Reviewed in issue 5/1996
What no one will deny is the amazing unanimity and precision of the playing here and the superlative quality of...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2009
Italian 17th-century violin music seems to be a bit of a growth area on CD at the moment, and quite...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/2000
In spite of the French title, and the conductor known for his interest in period performance, this is not the...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1990
Fritz Kreisler's art does not travel comfortably into the 1990s, it's far too angst-free for our troubled age, too unequivocally...
Reviewed in issue 9/1993
How could one describe the fascination of Martinu's Julietta to someone who has never heard it? One could begin, perhaps,...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1993
First, the instruments themselves, both from Washington’s Smithsonian Museum – the legendary Stradivarius once owned by the great Belgian cellist,...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1996
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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