Search the Reviews Database

Nadia Reisenberg - (A) Chopin Treasury

This four-CD reissue of Nadia Reisenberg’s Chopin, recorded for Westminster between 1947 and 1957, also includes a live and fearless...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2009

Musique and Sweet Poetrie

“If musique and sweet poetrie agree,” begins Barnfield’s sonnet. Thus the keynote for this collection of songs and lute solos...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 4/2007

Bryars Chamber Works

Restrained, elegiac and with an almost therapeutic consistency of pulse, “The Last Days” (the album’s generic title) suggests a combination...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

Rachmaninov Piano concerto Nos 1 & 2

With no shortage of fine versions of this pairing from which to choose, EMI must rely on the undoubted selling...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2005

Sculthorpe Piano Music

This is a fascinating collection—a composer's source-book and an introduction to one of the leading personalities in Australian music. A...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/1992

Bartoli sings Mozart Arias

No doubt this concert, recorded at Graz’s elegant Stefaniensaal, is aimedprimarily at Bartoli-philes, who will not be disappointed; it’s predictably...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 6/2003

Laurent Korcia - Doubles Jeux

Laurent Korcia is not only an uncommonly accomplished violinist but also an uncommonly original programmer. One would not normally expect...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/2007

Beethoven Symphonies, etc

I remember with great affection the Schubert symphony cycle that Menuhin recorded for HMV with the Bath Festival Chamber Orchestra...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1996

Chausson Concerto & String Quartet

Although it is a rarity in the concert hall, the Chausson Concert has been fairly well served by the gramophone....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1987

Psalms from St Paul's, Volume 8

Because ours is a magazine with a primarily musical interest, comments on this series have mostly had to do with...

Reviewed in issue 4/1999

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---