Search the Reviews Database
Music for a Summer's Day
This is an unimpressive record. The Pierne Variations are agreeable, sounding like incidental music for some TV pastoral romance, but...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1986
Arensky Solo Piano Works
Arensky (1861-1906) is best remembered today for just a handful of works – including the First Piano Trio and the...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 3/1999
Karita Mattila - Arias and Scenes
Karita Mattila | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Yutaka Sado
We are surely a favoured generation that has three singers – Renee Fleming, Angela Gheorghiu and Karita Mattila (and perhaps...
Reviewed in issue 7/2001
Leclair Violin & Continuo Sonatas
François Fernandez | Philippe Pierlot | Pierre Hantaï
Bearing in mind that Leclair was considered one of the greatest violinists of his time and wrote extensively for his...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1998
Britten, Grieg and Szymanowski - Violin Works
Carole Presland | Rafal Zambrzycki-Payne
One of the leading virtues of EMI's Debut series is its programming policy, where the tried-and-tested rubs shoulders with the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2000
Carter In Sleep, in Thunder/Triple Duo
(The) Fires of London | London Sinfonietta | Martyn Hill | Oliver Knussen
This splendid record celebrates the remarkable rapport between a great American composer and two outstanding British contemporary music groups. In...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1986
Mozart: Complete String Quartets
This series of performances dates from between 1966 (when the six quartets Nos. 14-19 dedicated to Haydn were recorded) to...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1987
Debussy Piano Works
After her warmly acclaimed Faure recital (CFC138, 8/86; CD CDCF138, 6/87), Kathryn Stott has moved on to Debussy, choosing a...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1987
Mendelssohn String Symphonies
The Concerto Cologne gave delightful performances of three of Mendelssohn’s early string symphonies, Nos. 8-10, on Teldec (12/94); five more...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1996
The Wise Virgins
Adrian Boult | London Philharmonic Orchestra
These vintage Boult performances are captured in irrepressibly vivid, mono sound from the first half of the 1950s. In point...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1997
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.