Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Dalibor Vackar's Concerto is a lively, jazzy piece, making surprisingly effective use of its unusual instrumental combination: it does rather...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 7/1989
There was always a sense of tightened standards in the house when Solti conducted, and a Zeffirelli production usually meant...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2007
The main interest of this Suitner CD is that it offers us (for the first time on record, and probably...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1987
Listening to the Munich Capella Antiqua's version of Josquin's Missa La sol fa re mi, originally recorded in 1977 and...
Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 10/1990
This disc of music by Glasgow-born-and-based composer Eddie McGuire brings together works for three of the composer’s own instruments in...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 13/2006
An appealing programme, whose high-spots include York Bowen’s 1925 miniature The Way to Polden, the dreamy Bolinge Hill by Peter...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1998
Most of us have cast a dull eye over lists of works performed at one Festival or another and never...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2003
Shostakovich’s oratorio hails Stalin’s plans for the afforestation of the Russian steppe; Prokofiev’s is a militant plea for peace. More...
Reviewed in issue 9/1999
Vol 2 in Chandos’s Holst series finds Sir Andrew Davis stepping into the breach left by Richard Hickox’s death. Certainly,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2011
Poulenc's last two chamber works here flank three others from 1918-26. The Clarinet Sonata and Oboe Sonata date from 1962...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1992
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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