Search the Reviews Database
Rossini The Italian Girl in Algiers
Unlike Rossini's too infrequently recorded Le Comte Ory, L'italiana in Algeri has generally fared well on record. Older sets conducted...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1989
Bruckner SYmphony No 4
Claudio Abbado | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
For many years, Bruckner's so-called Romantic Symphony was the most frequently performed and recorded of all his symphonic works. Happily,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1991
Rossini Overtures
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado
There hasn't been a lot to laugh about recently, but there are, I'm happy to say, one or two laughs...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1991
Sol Gabetta: Live
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Krzysztof Urbanski | Simon Rattle | Sol Gabetta
Sol Gabetta’s handling of Martinů’s life-affirming First Cello Concerto (1930 55), which over a 25 year period grew from a...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017
Bruckner Symphony No 5
Claudio Abbado | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
It says Vienna Philharmonic on the label, so it must be. The innocent ear, though, might well conclude that this...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1996
Rossini (Il) Barbiere di Siviglia
Claudio Abbado’s youthful Beatlecut marks the age of this film‚ still one of the better screen Barbieres if not absolutely...
Reviewed in issue 3/2002
Bruckner Symphony No 7
In recording studios round the world you can be pretty sure that if it's Monday and there's an R in...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1994
Cherubini Coronation Mass
Philharmonia Chorus | Philharmonia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
Cherubini was born (in Florence) in 1760, four years after Mozart, and lived until 1842 when Beethoven had been in...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 12/1985
Spontini La Vestale
That this work is the essential link between Gluck and Berlioz, and also pre-echoes late Rossini and Bellini, is even...
Reviewed in issue 12/1995
New Year's Concert 2004
Riccardo Muti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Whether it’s one’s first New Year Concert or 50th, there’s still something magical about the annual transmission from Vienna. It...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 3/2004
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.