Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
For the LPO to give us yet more Sibelius from Paavo Berglund is not as daft as it might seem....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2005
Fricsay's Concerto for Orchestra is at least twice as exciting and twice as penetrating as any in my experience, save...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 5/1989
This is not only an exceptionally well sung and admirably recorded Mahler recital, it is also intelligently planned in its...
Reviewed in issue 9/1990
I sometimes permit myself to wonder whether singers quite realize what they are undertaking when they embark upon a Schubert...
Reviewed in issue 12/1988
It was Arne Nordheim’s notion to juxtapose his 1971 composition Listen with Beethoven’s C minor Sonata. Fortuitously, Einar Steen-Nøkleberg had...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 13/2007
‘Recorded here for the first time’ claims the booklet to this new recording‚ referring to the first 17 of the...
Reviewed in issue 9/2001
Hildegard’s thought, her understanding of the science of her day and, to a certain limited extent, her own very personal...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 3/1999
Excellent news: the revival of interest in the music of Egon Wellesz (who died 30 years ago this year) continues...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2004
Two of the Biblical lessons for Maundy Thursday show Tallis at his most creative and imaginative. ‘Incipit lamentatio…’ the rising...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 13/2004
Oswald von Wolkenstein (d 1445) comes across as one of the most ‘knowable’ characters of the medieval period. That is...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/1997
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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