Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Florilegium have called their latest release ‘A Musical Offering’, which is nice, if potentially misleading. In fact, we do get...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: /2000
High-minded readers who may be predisposed to look askance at a composer for whom the tango was an almost constant...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1996
This, the fourth CD in the Levin-Hogwood series of the Mozart piano concertos (previous issues have been reviewed in 7/94,...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 9/1997
The six concertos on this CD are culled from two previously released LPs. Not all of them find Vivaldi at...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1985
Clerambault’s chamber cantatas, Orphee and Leandre et Hero, are well represented on the Gramophone Database. So they should...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1998
The idea of having a seasoned piano trio record this most equable of Beethoven concertos dates back to the days...
Reviewed in issue 1/2002
We asked Rob Cowan to review Il Sogno without telling him anything about it. This is the response of his...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2004
Oboist of The Fibonnaci Sequence since its inception in 1994, Christopher O’Neal was a pupil of Terence MacDonagh (a stellar...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2009
What in the English-speaking world has always been known as The Spectre’s Bride was one of the great successes of...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1996
“Triple Concertos” is as good a title for a Telemann disc as any I suppose, even if the link is...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp 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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