Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
In The Orchestra Speaks (Longman: 1938), Bernard Shore, then Principal Viola with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, gives a remarkable account...
Reviewed in issue 7/1998
By all accounts – including those of the hostile Richard Wagner – Mendelssohn favoured urgent tempi when conducting his own...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/2010
This recording of Euryanthe should never be out of the catalogue—we need it to remind us what an important, original...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1986
When I received the LPs of this version I had to disagree with Chailly's performance in one very important particular;...
Reviewed in issue 2/1987
A fascinating comparison here, for both groups use Elgar Howarth's brilliant arrangement of Mussorgsky's Pictures and yet the colouristic matching...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1991
Just 20 this year, and already three years into his contract with DG, Gianluca Cascioli already has three fine discs...
Reviewed in issue 7/1999
All good marketing principles cast aside, Gli Angeli Genève have assembled five magnificent cantatas from contrasting 17th- and 18th-century North...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2008
This is the most enjoyable and convincing piece of advocacy for Percy Grainger's music that I have heard for a...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1990
Max Reger’s orchestral arrangements of 15 Schubert Lieder, made in 1913-14, are essentially period pieces. The big dramatic songs are...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/1999
This well filled conspectus was made last year, Dame Elizabeth Maconchy’s centenary year. Her compositions, never less than civilised, prove...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2008
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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