Search the Reviews Database
Birds in Baroque Music
Dorothee Mields | La Folia Baroque Orchestra | Stefan Temmingh | The Gentleman's Band
Recorders and sopranos – it might not be Cav/Pag or Gheorghiu and Alagna, but it’s still one of music’s great...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2016
Shostakovich Symphonies Nos 1 and 6
Russian National Orchestra | Wladimir Jurowski
Vladimir Jurowski is familiar to UK audiences through his live music-making with the LPO. Now this adaptable maestro is striking...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2006
English Viola Sonatas
Martin Outram, viola player in the outstanding Maggini Quartet, here tackles an attractive sequence of works. Sadly the recording, with...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2010
Mitterer, W Music for checking e-mails
And with a wry riff off the title, maybe, of Andy Williams’s “Music To Watch Girls By”, Music for checking...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 13/2010
WEINBERG Symphonies. Chamber Symphonies (Duczmal-Mróz)
Anna Duczmal-Mroz | Łukasz Długosz | Polish Radio Amadeus Chamber Orchestra
Whether or not the music of Mieczysław Weinberg makes further inroads in terms of actual performance, his recorded representation shows...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2020
English Music for Oboe
Rohan de Saram | Sarah Francis | Tagore String Trio
This disc offers a splendid celebration of the artistry of the oboist Sarah Francis. All but one of the works...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 02/2015
Lakatos
Discographers with a liking for musical categories might have trouble with this one: it isn’t jazz, neither is it –...
Reviewed in issue 2/1999
Bartolotti (Di) Chitarra Spagnolà
In this disc featuring the guitar and lute music of Angiol Michele Bartolotti (c1615-c1682), an Italian musician associated with the...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2010
Sanz Guitar Works
The guitar, through its association with dance and other forms of lewdness, considered an instrument of the Devil? Sound familiar?...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 2/2006
Handel in Italy Vol 1
Benjamin Bevan | Bridget Cunningham | London Early Opera | Mary Bevan | Sophie Bevan
The harpsichordist Bridget Cunningham and her ensemble London Early Opera are not to be confused with Christian Curnyn’s longer-established Early...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2015
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.