Search the Reviews Database
Schubert Symphonic Reconstructions
Charles Mackerras | Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Someone will have to find another name for Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony (the B minor) before too long. In fact there...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 11/1997
Nocturnal dances of Don Juan Quixote
(I) Musici de Montreal | Yuli Turovsky
I Musici de Montréal have a habit of putting together fascinating programmes‚ and this – incidentally showcasing Yuli Turovsky’s solo...
Reviewed in issue 10/2002
Russian Orchestral Works
Dutch Royal Marine Band | Kirov Opera Chorus | Kirov Opera Orchestra | Valery Gergiev
Unlike Sir Georg Solti in his thrilling and brilliantly articulated LSO recording for Decca (last reviewed in January 1990 and...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1994
BUSONI Sonatina seconda SCRIABIN 2 Dances. 5 Preludes
What to choose for your debut album? Do you play music that is, quite simply, close to your heart, or...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2014
Spanish Impressions
Joaquin Turina has left me cold, hitherto, so I was surprised to have warmed to his Serenata (1942). A warm,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2000
Myaskovsky Complete Symphonic Works, Vol 6:
Evgeni Svetlanov | Russian Federation Academic Symphony Orchestra
Olympia’s Myaskovsky intégrale has now reached the Sixth‚ an epic work often rated his magnum opus‚ not least in the...
Reviewed in issue 9/2002
Borodin Orchestral Works
Evgeni Svetlanov | USSR Symphony Orchestra
A CD made in France by a French company of, admittedly charming Russian tunes, but recorded in Moscow way back...
Reviewed in issue 2/1986
Ballet Music from Famous Operas
Leonard Bernstein | New York Philharmonic Orchestra
The five-to-ten minute orchestral sprint was always a Bernstein speciality, and these CDs do indeed convey a winning athleticism. ''Opera...
Reviewed in issue 9/1993
Merula Songs, Dances & Variations
Daniela Dolci | Musica Fiorita
Tarquinio Merula was born in Cremona about 20 years after Monteverdi, and though his career took him throughout the north...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/2005
Bax Symphonic Poems
David Lloyd-Jones | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
A good many readers will, I suspect, already have acquired these performances on their initial appearance as couplings on David...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2005
Follow us
Gramophone Digital Club
- Digital Edition
- Digital Archive
- Reviews Database
- Full website access
From £8.75 / month
Subscribe
Gramophone Full Club
- Print Edition
- Digital Edition
- Digital Archive
- Reviews Database
- Full website access
From £11.00 / month
Subscribe
If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information.