Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Kyung Wha Chung has recorded both of these central concertos before, but in this generous and attractive coupling these EMI...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1992
None of the composers in this recital have received the sort of coverage they deserve (no, not even Lassus: how...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/1999
These are old recordings by CD standards, and one is aware of background tape hiss in such passages as the...
Reviewed in issue 12/1984
This latest product of Alan Feinberg’s genius is quite different from the eccentric Argo anthologies I have increasingly admired (1/91,...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/1996
This is the work of two composers, Stanley Joseph Seeger and Francis James Brown (their middle names provide the nom...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1999
Zemlinsky is still a far from repertory composer. No recording company can bank on a group of reliable 'Zemlinsky specialists'...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1994
This superb Dutch group under their permanent guest conductor, John Alldis, offer high-class choral singing. The magical start of “Full...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/1998
The late Giuseppe Patane's Munich recording of Il trittico appeared earlier on three separate discs. Not only were they at...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1990
Dutton’s fourth anthology devoted to the music of Cecilia McDowall (b1951) launches in delightful fashion with Laudate (2008), an exuberant...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2009
These piano concertos are derivative works, written by a boy of 11 in the case of Nos. 1–4—which are actually...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1989
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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