Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
This exemplary release finds Anne Sofie von Otter again stamping her distinctive mark on a disc. Two of these works...
Reviewed by John Allison in issue: 10/2008
Collectors requiring just one set of the Sallinen symphonies may well be put in a quandary by this fine new...
Reviewed in issue 12/1994
It is appropriate that the first recording of the first version of Forza should come from St Petersburg, where the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1997
That this is unashamedly ‘big-band’ Mozart is underlined by the upfront recording which vividly captures the atmosphere of a live...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2003
Joseph Kosma (1905-1969) is still not a well-known name, even to devotees of French song. However, nearly everybody knows the...
Reviewed in issue 10/2000
The Scott revival marches on with seven CDs of piano music from Dutton, two orchestral discs from Chandos, the Lyrita...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/2008
Caroline Kotok is a well-schooled artist and everything here is presented in near-spotless, accurate readings. What her playing as yet...
Reviewed in issue 5/1998
Outstanding quartet playing. The first movement of the Grieg sets the tone; a performance combining precision (ensemble, tuning and rhythmic...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2000
There was a time when the greatness of the team had to be taken on trust, such was the paucity...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2000
The Hanover Band were recording Beethoven symphonies with period instruments some time before the present vogue began; but in those...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson 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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