Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
The unmistakable sound of the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral, the youthful quality of the voices and the selection of...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 6/1988
This collection, arriving in good time for Alan Bush's ninety-fifth birthday in December, nearly doubles the amount of his music...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1995
Long the Cinderella work of Schubert’s miraculous final year, the E flat Mass is now acknowledged as a powerful masterpiece...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/2008
Here, in brilliantly refreshed sound, is a reissue of Prokofiev’s five piano concertos, first released in 1990 and now appearing...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2009
While Bach himself would have recognized every bar of music contained in this programme of concertos and sinfonias, it is...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1997
Very much the critics’ darling at the moment, Mariss Jansons took up the post of Chief Conductor of the Bavarian...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 0/0
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies continues to divide the critics – even within these pages, where his oratorio Job (1997) was...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1998
This substantial and festal programme contrasts three settings of the Te Deum spanning 250 years of English composers, from Purcell...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 4/2011
The titles betray the dominant mood. This is the elderly Liszt, the visionary and philosopher preoccupied with mortality, musing on...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 5/2011
The French countertenor, Gerard Lesne is probably best known in the UK for his recordings with William Christie and Les...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1991
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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