Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
Search the Reviews Database
20th Century Cello Sonatas
On two Somm CDs the excellent cellist Alexander Baillie, with his pianist, John Thwaites, has collected six enjoyable British cello...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2013
STENHAMMAR String Quartets Nos 3 & 4
As relatively recently as 1983 in these pages, Robert Layton felt it necessary to preface his review of a recording...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2013
SCHOENBERG String Quartet No 1. Verklärte Nacht
Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and String Quartet No 1 are both single-movement symphonic structures, rich in polyphonic detail and ending with...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2013
RACHMANINOV Piano Trios
You have to wonder whether Ashkenazy would ever have made this disc were it not for the fact that it...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2013
RACHMANINOV Works for 2 Pianos
Which would you prefer? A great, revelatory performance on an acoustic disc or a good performance in digital sound? Fondamenta...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2013
MOZART Clarinet Quintet K581. String Quartet K421
If you want a recording of Mozart’s Quintet on a conventional clarinet, Jörg Widmann and the Arcanto Quartet are up...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2013
HARLE Art Music
John Harle quotes Picasso in suggesting that ‘a painting should have an immediate, visceral effect’, and tells us that his...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2013
GOEHR Since Brass, Nor Stone...
Having enjoyed a disc of Goehr’s orchestral works a few months back (Naxos, 3/13), I’ve found it instructive to turn...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2013
ENESCU Violin Sonatas Nos 2 & 3
Enescu’s Second Violin Sonata (1899) occupies a special place in his output, being the work in which he found his...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2013
VALEN; HVOSLEF; EGGE Trios
Fartein Valen began planning a trio in 1912 but only began serious work on it in 1917. Progress, as often...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2013
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
Which are the right active loudspeakers for you?
Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
Gramophone Guides
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.