Search the Reviews Database

IVES 3 Places in New England SIBELIUS Symphony No 4

Archival reclamations are rarely as well documented as this one. In addition to helpful contextual notes by Andrew Farach-Colton, the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2013

HINDEMITH Complete Piano Concertos

While Hindemith’s concertos for violin, cello and especially viola have been gathered in usually single-disc collections, the five works for...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2013

HAYDN Cello Concertos MYSLIVEČEK Cello Concerto

Drostan Hall here conducts without the gestures that shape phrases, generate intensity and give meaning to music. His metrical beat...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2013

GOUNOD Complete Works for Pedal Piano and Orchestra

Gounod’s complete works for pedal piano and orchestra is not something the musical world has been waiting for with bated...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2013

ELGAR Symphony No 2 WAGNER Tannhäuser Overture

Here’s a welcome companion release to ICA Classics’ recent restoration (8/12) of Boult’s blistering Elgar First from the 1976 Proms....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2013

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4

Marek Janowski’s Bruckner cycle, of which this is the last instalment, has enjoyed a good press around these parts, but...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 12/2013

BRITTEN Simple Symphony. Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge

This programme of Britten’s music for strings includes a few surprises. It is a boon to us today that the...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2013

BRAHMS Violin Concerto BARTÓK Rhapsodies

This is indeed a splendid recording of the Concerto. The Gewandhaus Orchestra sound bright and resplendent in the great D...

Reviewed in issue 12/2013

Vienna 1789

Cellos and basses laying the foundation for the first movement of K595 don’t only articulate the harmony. In this performance...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2013

Xiayin Wang: American Piano Concertos

Premiered in 1927, Copland’s Piano Concerto was described by one critic as ‘a jazz dance hall next to a poultry...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2013

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---