Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Not everything on this disc is new. Many readers will already know Julian Lloyd Webber’s deeply felt version of Ireland’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2005
The real hero of this new, live recording of Rossini's still too little known early comic masterpiece is Claudio Desderi....
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1993
This is the fourth volume of Isabel Beyer’s and Harvey Dagul’s survey of the piano duets of Moszkowski and his...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 6/1999
There is enough of Vivaldi's music for the lute, though not of that for the mandolin, to occupy a whole...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1986
One look at the densely-packed 1747 edition of Forqueray's Pieces de violes is enough to convince anyone of the probable...
Reviewed in issue 11/1992
For Martin Scorsese's new thriller of duplicitous goings-on on the murkier side of Boston, Howard Shore has come up with...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 2/2007
A collective title like this is a convenient way of gathering together apparently diverse material. Prokofiev's Overture on Hebrew Themes...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1990
I can only recall a handful of Wood reissues during the whole of the LP era, and even when historic...
Reviewed in issue 9/1994
La clarinette francaise indeed, where the repertoire is concerned, but not where the style of playing is concerned. The French...
Reviewed in issue 10/1988
It looks as though the bad times are over for Rossini's Stabat mater. During the 1970s and 1980s an influential...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne 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
If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information.