Beethoven Violin Concerto

When I reviewed Lisa Batiashvili’s memorable Proms performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto some eight years ago (she was just 20...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2008

Danse Macabre

Andrew Wan | Kent Nagano | Montreal Symphony Orchestra

This is a curiously old-fashioned sort of disc – a programme of orchestral pieces by different composers, linked only by...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016

Guido Cantelli A profile

(René) Duclos Choir | André Cluytens | Annie Challan | Belgian National Orchestra | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | Guido Cantelli | London Philharmonic Orchestra | London Symphony Orchestra | NBC Symphony Orchestra

There must be many Gramophone readers who cut their musical teeth on these recordings, and whose abilities to re-assess first...

Reviewed in issue 11/1994

Enescu Symphonies Nos 1-3

(Les) Eléments Chamber Choir | Audite Nova Vocal Ensemble | Catherine Sydney | Colonne Orchestra Choir | Franco Maggio-Ormezowski | Jean-Paul Barrellon | Lawrence Foster | Lyon National Orchestra | Marius Brenciu | Mark Foster

No excuses now for keeping the best of Enescu’s orchestral output at arm’s length, with two well-filled double packs offering...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 9/2005

Karel Ancerl, Volume 1

(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Frantisek Maxián | Hessian Radio Orchestra, Frankfurt | Karel Ancerl | Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Karel Ancerl was a fine conductor and an honest musician whose 1950s-60s Supraphon recordings with the Czech Philharmonic include many...

Reviewed in issue 3/1996

Beethoven Leonore Overture no.3; Prokofiev Love for Three Oranges Suite; Dvorák Symphony No.9

BBC Symphony Orchestra | Rudolf Kempe

In the years after Sir Thomas Beecham died in 1961, when various powers-that-be were seeking to undermine his orchestra, the...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Jack Liebeck - Works for Violin and Piano

Jack Liebeck | Katya Apekisheva

Jack Liebeck, who is still only in his mid-twenties, knows how to bow a singing line, most notably here in...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2004

PROKOFIEV Suites from The Gambler and The Tale of the Stone Flower

Dima Slobodeniouk | Lahti Symphony Orchestra

Quietly and without fuss, Moscow-born Finnish-resident Dima Slobodeniouk has been rising through the ranks with posts in Galicia and Lahti...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2020

Szymanowski/Panufnik Symphonies

Andrzej Panufnik | BBC Singers | BBC Symphony Chorus | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Mark Elder | Norman Del Mar | Piotr Paleczny

The Szymanowski performances on this disc have a winning blend of exuberance and discipline. Norman del Mar's account of the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1995

BAX Symphony in F

Martin Yates | Royal Scottish National Orchestra

It is often the case that the first symphonic essay of any aspiring composer tends to be long. Nevertheless, Bax’s...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2014