Book review - Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium (by Caroline Potter)
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Search the Reviews Database
BRAHMS; SCHUMANN Arrangements for 2 pianos/String quartet
Brahms’s Piano Quintet – one of the early masterpieces of the genre, along with Schumann’s – took a while to...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2012
BIRTWISTLE Complete String Quartets
In 1991, when Sir Harrison Birtwistle wrote a brief string quartet movement for the 90th birthday of his publisher, Universal...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2012
BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Op 70/2; Op 97
There has been something of a flurry of Beethoven piano trios coming my way over the past couple of months....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2012
Nordic Sounds
Do not be put off a programme by unfamiliar names. This is such a choral feast that one can only...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2012
Most Grand to Die
Success as Hans Sachs at Bayreuth has probably won James Rutherford a higher profile on the other side of the...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2012
Insomnia: A Nocturnal Voyage in Song
Part of the fun in themed recitals comes from the selection and juxtaposition of the songs. William Berger’s ‘Insomnia’ is...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2012
Ay Portugal
La Compañia is one of Australia’s finest and best-known early music ensembles and Iberian music has already been in evidence...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2012
VIVALDI New Discoveries Vol II
Musicology and the recording industry are sometimes uneasy bedfellows, particularly in relation to early repertories. Dodgy reconstructions of music for...
Reviewed in issue 11/2012
VICTORIA Officium Defunctorum
Philippe Herreweghe’s conception of Victoria’s six-voice Requiem (the more famous of the two settings he composed) imparts a sense of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2012
RUEHR Choral Works
Three American poets supply the texts for this enterprising release of music by Michigan-born, Juilliard-trained Elena Ruehr (b1963). She is...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2012
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Tchaikovsky’s Empire: A New Life of Russia’s Greatest Composer (by Simon Morrison)
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
Review - Berl Senofsky: American Virtuoso
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Review - Max Rostal: Concert Tours 1956-1965
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Review - The Complete Symphonic, Concertante & Sacred Music Recordings (Orch dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Antonio Pappano)
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
Review - recent Mengelberg releases from the archives
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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.