DVOŘÁK Piano Quartets

Gary Pomeroy | London Bridge Trio

Dvořák’s masterly piano quartets find the augmented London Bridge Trio (Gary Pomeroy takes the viola line) offering sensitive, well-integrated readings...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2016

Marian Anderson - Opera, Oratorio & Song Recital

(Anonymous) Orchestra | Charles O'Connell | Dimitri Mitropoulos | Eugene Ormandy | Franz Rupp | Kosti Vehanen | Marian Anderson | Mr Price | New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus | New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

In terms of vocal prowess, the past has a great deal to teach us. We are constantly averring in Gramophone...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1990

Kathryn Stott Dance

Kathryn Stott

Notching up her half-century has clearly not quelled the joy of discovery and sense of adventure that’s marked the career...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2009

Heartbreak

Elissa Lee Koljonen | Robert Koenig

The title may make you cringe, but this is very classy violin playing. Lovely tone, beautiful legato phrasing and, given...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/1999

DVOŘÁK Symphonies Nos 6 & 7. Othello

London Philharmonic Orchestra | Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Yannick Nézet-Séguin is one of the busiest conductors on the international classical music circuit. Criss-crossing between Montreal and Rotterdam, Philadelphia...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2017

Ziehrer Selected Dances and Marches, Vol 2

This second volume of Marco Polo’s Ziehrer series has a major plus in Michael Dittrich’s ever lively and imaginative conducting....

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1998

Schubert Symphony No 9; Five German Dances

Budapest Festival Orchestra

To begin, Iván Fischer uses natural horns, which means that some notes have to be stopped; you’ll recognise them by...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 8/2011

Tatyana Nikolaieva: The 1989 Herodes Atticus Odeon Recital

Tatyana Nikolaieva

Look at the close-ups on any YouTube video of Tatyana Nikolaieva’s pianism and you will see on full display the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2016

Prokofiev Orchestral Works

Neeme Järvi | Royal Scottish National Orchestra

As we reach the centenary year, Neeme Jarvi continues the Prokofievian odyssey on which he embarked in the mid-1980s with...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1991

Dvorák (The) Spectre's Bride

Ivan Kusnjer | John Aler | New Jersey Symphony Orchestra | Oksana Krovytska | Westminster Symphonic Choir | Zdenek Macal

When the dramatic cantata, The Spectre’s Bride, stands out among Dvorák’s choral works for its vigour, it is sad that...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2003