Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Performances of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto tend to fall into one of two interpretative camps, the reverential, or “Olympian”, and the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2008
For his account of La creation du monde Ian Hobson chooses the original chamber version of the score. It has...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1988
''What seraphic music. It must be Bruckner'', remarked a friend who entered the room as I was playing this recording....
Reviewed in issue 9/1988
An excellently-chosen coupling this, not only as a reminder of the warm regard, both musical and personal, shared by Brahms...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/2003
I first made the acquaintance of Abigail James’s playing on Delphian’s superb disc of Edward McGuire’s chamber music (A/06), and...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2007
As their clarinettist Dieter Klocker describes in his notes, there was so much casual music-making in and around Salzburg in...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1990
My enthusiasm for the original issue of Gould's performance of Book I was considerable but by the time Book 2...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1989
A huge triumph for Glyndebourne, this. But before going on to particularise, perhaps we should tip some of our bouquets...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2010
This new recording of Bach's four Orchestral Suites has many engaging qualities against which I must set one or two...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1992
One might call this delightful collection “Richard Strauss in Hungary”, so obvious – and nourishing – is the German master’s...
Reviewed in issue 4/1996
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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