Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
It’s been nearly a decade since the appearance of Douglas Bostock’s pioneering recording of Arthur Butterworth’s epic First Symphony (Classico,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2009
The “diluvio” of the title, being “universale”, is of course Noah’s Flood, but we can banish all thoughts of the...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2007
This enthralling set only goes to confirm Furtwangler as the deepest and most satisfying of all Wagner conductors. How sad,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1994
It is hard to realize that when this set appeared in 1952 it was the first studio-made recording of the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1994
Here is one of the more distinguished Rachmaninov issues of recent years, indubitably the best of the ongoing Mariss Jansons/St...
Reviewed in issue 12/1993
The Berlin Baroque Soloists have impressed before with the skill and style with which they play 18th-century repertoire on modern...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/2008
The Danish Horn Trio are a warmly sympathetic Brahmsian team. But of course the horn dominates in the Brahms Trio‚...
Reviewed in issue 9/2002
Confession time: I have a near obsession with Requiems. Browsing through the shelves, any CD with the word “Requiem” on...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 6/2009
''This is the first time I have ever heard Bernstein conduct Mahler, and I certainly hope that it will not...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 6/1989
Ever since the late 1950s, recordings of the Richard Strauss horn concertos have been over-shadowed by the famous Dennis Brain...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1988
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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