Search the Reviews Database

RACHMANINOV The Bells

These performances of The Bells are linked by venue. When a Beatle-haired André Previn brought the LSO and Chorus to...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2012

MOZART Requiem. Ave verum corpus

Harry Christophers follows up his Boston recording of the C minor Mass (A/10) with Mozart’s other great unfinished sacred work,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2012

MONTÉCLAIR Cantates à voix seule

Michel Pignolet de Montéclair has often been categorised merely in terms of having come in between Lully and Rameau, but...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2012

JANÁČEK Glagolitic Mass. Sinfonietta

This new coupling of the best-known masterpieces of Janácek’s last and most productive decade enters a highly competitive market, with...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2012

APERGHIS À portée de voix

Whenever a new disc by Georges Aperghis arrives, I get a tingle where it counts most – no other living...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 01/2012

LISZT Grandes Études de Paganini, S141. Reminiscences de Lucia di Lammermoor, S397

This richly comprehensive reissue shows Alfred Brendel in his early years as a towering Lisztian proclaiming Liszt’s genius at...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2012

COWIE Rutherford's Lights

‘Richard Casey performs 24 Studies in Light and Colour for solo piano, a dramatic set of physics-inspired compositions by composer...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 01/2012

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 29 LISZT Années de pèlerinage No 1

Andreas Haefliger’s ‘Perspectives’ series has been a model of thoughtful and occasionally provocative programme-building. This fifth instalment leans more towards...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2012

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 1

Jonathan Biss begins Beethoven’s Op 10 No 1 Sonata’s first movement by ever so slightly elongating and slowing down phrases,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2012

ZEMLINSKY String Quartets Nos 2 & 4

Zemlinsky is one of those composers of not quite the first rank whose reputation continues to be overshadowed by his...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 01/2012

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---