Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
This new release from Decca brings together two of Telemann’s grandest orchestral suites, the Wassermusik of 1723, and the Alster...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1998
Few works of the Renaissance period can boast as privileged a discography as Byrd’s Masses. The recordings offered for comparison...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 2/2003
Grétry was in his 49th year in 1790 when he composed La jeunesse de Pierre le Grand. It was his...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 7/2003
Written on the libretto that Handel also used 84 years afterwards, Xerse is a later work of Cavalli's than any...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1985
These are delightful, intelligent and witty performances of some very attractive music. Hummel’s career ranged from his beginnings as a...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1998
Perhaps the first thing to say about the music on this record is that none of it should be taken...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 4/1987
All of Eduard Tubin's ten symphony symphonies are now on record. The Seventh is available on LP played by the...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1988
Of Schumann's larger works for solo piano, the Davidsbundlertanze suite was the most notable omission from the CD catalogue. So...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1988
Of Donizetti’s 70-or-so operas just over 30 are currently available on disc. This is a remarkable situation, considering that until...
Reviewed in issue 11/2000
Both the Six epigraphes antiques and the 12 Etudes date from the period 1914-5 and the latter set proved to...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 2/1990
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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