Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
The Usher Waltz of Koshkin is the only item not previously recorded by Williams; this disc is not, however, a...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1994
The recordings here come from different locations and range in date from 1969 to 1987, the former applying to just...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1991
This of course is not the first Dichterliebe recording by a countertenor or alto. The Hungaroton version by Paul Esswood...
Reviewed in issue 12/1992
Sir George Dyson's Symphony, composed in 1937, was still heard in the 1940s. Christopher Palmer in his excellent note for...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1994
Buy this, may I suggest, and save it for a few days (you won’t have to wait long) until one...
Reviewed in issue 8/1996
This wide-ranging collection of live recordings gives the most vivid portrait of one of the very greatest conductors of the...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2003
The pre-overture prelude in the Francesco Rosi film of Carmen is enough to turn anyone into an animal rights activist....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 13/2011
Edward MacDowell wrote his only two concertos in the early 1880s when he was himself in his early twenties. They...
Reviewed in issue 12/1986
Klemperer was closely associated with Mozart’s dramma giocosa from the earliest days of his career, often staging the work in...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1999
Highlights from the ''Flute'' make more sense than those from other operas as all the musical numbers are self-contained. As...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1986
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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