Search the Reviews Database

Berlioz's Lost Oboe: Early French Romantic Music For Oboe and Piano

A century before Rodrigo immortalised the palace of Aranjuez in his guitar Concierto (1939), oboist-composer Stanislas Verroust (1814 63) composed...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023

SHOSTAKOVICH Works Unveiled

Shostakovich was extremely lucky in at least one respect: in his declining years he married a woman who was perfect...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 04/2023

SCHUBERT Works for Piano Trio. Arpeggione Sonata

How does one review a recording of this nature? The very last studio activity of the late Lars Vogt, a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2023

Stella x Schubert

The piano’s mysteriously, sensuously quivering pianissimo tremolo on to which is spun a long, slowly unfurling violin half-melody, the whole...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2023

MENDELSSOHN Complete String Quartets, Vol 2 (Quatuor Van Kuijk)

Alpha and the brilliant young Van Kuijk Quartet again steal a march on their CD competitors by offering three Mendelssohn...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2023

HARRISON Chamber Works

Although it has never been forgotten, the music of Pamela Harrison (1915 90) has received few recordings, and those who...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2023

GRIEG; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Violin Sonatas (Charlie Siem)

Charlie Siem and Itamar Golan team up for a commanding, grippingly communicative rendering of Vaughan Williams’s meaty and technically challenging...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2023

GÍSLADÓTTIR VÍDDIR. SILVA

Bára Gísladóttir is emerging as a major figure on the contemporary music scenes in Denmark (where she lives) and Iceland...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2023

BUSCH Chamber Works

The prospect of Adolf Busch writing quartets is an enticing one for any listener curious to hear inside the mind...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2023

BRAHMS Violin Sonatas (Ning Feng)

I can imagine some listeners finding these interpretations of the Brahms violin sonatas a bit too subdued, although I find...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2023

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---