Search the Reviews Database
Frank Martin In terra pax/The Four Elements
Sometime in 1944, towards the end of the Second World War, Swiss Radio approached Frank Martin with a commission for...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1996
Rawsthorne Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2
This reissue of the 30-year-old recording of the two Rawsthorne piano concertos is up against tough recent competition. I admired...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/2007
Obrecht Sacred Music
The rise of vocal ensembles in Eastern Europe is one of the most promising developments of recent years. The all-male...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/1999
Bartók; Grieg: Strauss, R Violin Sonatas
Those who’ve heard Vilde Frang’s EMI recording of Sibelius and Prokofiev concertos (4/10) will be keen to sample this. For...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 5/2011
Trumpet Concertos
Jahja Ling | Rolf Smedvig | Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Rolf Smedvig, born in Seattle, made his debut with that city's Symphony Orchestra at the age of 13, and went...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1990
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition; Rachmaninov Isle Of The Dead
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Evgeni Svetlanov
Evgeny Svetlanov was in a class of his own when it came to conducting Rachmaninov, seeming to have natural instincts...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 1/2010
Haydn Revisited
For her second two-CD Haydn album Ragna Schirmer ventures far from the beaten track, imaginatively interspersing substantial and familiar masterpieces...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2008
Mira Zakai Song Recital
Adel Shalev | Avner Biron | Michael Haran | Mira Zakai | Yonathan Zak
It is not every day we hear a recital, recorded or live, from Mira Zakai, so it is a pity...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 5/1991
Haydn Symphonies
André Previn | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Any full-price disc running to a miserly 49 minutes has to offer a pretty special musical experience. And while Previn's...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/1993
R. Strauss Don Quixote; Death & Transfiguration
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Giusto Cappone | Herbert von Karajan | Pierre Fournier
My own preference among Karajan's three Berlin Philharmonic recordings of Don Quixore is for the EMI version with Rostropovich, which...
Reviewed in issue 4/1990
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.