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Review of Mozart Grande Sestetto Concertante; Piano Quartet

Mozart Grande Sestetto Concertante; Piano Quartet

No one has yet‚ I believe‚ recorded the arrangement of the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ for two flutes‚ published in England in...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Review of Niels & Axel Gade  Orchestral WOrks

Niels & Axel Gade Orchestral WOrks

This second disc in Danacord's enterprising series devoted to Danish composer fathers and sons (the first featured J P E...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2000

Review of Virgil Thomson Vocal and Orchestral Works

Virgil Thomson Vocal and Orchestral Works

Although these recordings were made well before Virgil Thomson's death in September 1989 in his 93rd year, the effect is...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1990

Review of Enescu Orchestral Works, Vol. 5

Enescu Orchestral Works, Vol. 5

The recording industry has of late proved encouragingly supportive of those composers whose reputations rest on one or two popular...

Reviewed in issue 11/1995

Review of Dohnányi Sextet; Fibich Quintet

Dohnányi Sextet; Fibich Quintet

Both composers employ their chosen resources with great expertise, Dohnanyi in a richly harmonized Sextet that opens among the clouds...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

Review of Frankel (The) Battle of the Bulge - Film Score

Frankel (The) Battle of the Bulge - Film Score

One of the many highly successful war films from the 1960s was Battle of the Bulge (1965), an expensive, star-packed...

Reviewed by rseeley in issue: 12/2000

Review of Hindemith Junge Magd; Todes Tod

Hindemith Junge Magd; Todes Tod

Hindemith is generally held to have found his mature style with the song-cycle Das Marienleben of 1923. (Even so, he...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1989

Review of Brahms Ballades; Rhapsodies, Op 79

Brahms Ballades; Rhapsodies, Op 79

The death of Glenn Gould in October 1982 robbed the gramophone (using the word generically to cover LP, CD and...

Reviewed in issue 5/1984

Review of Schubert Lieder

Schubert Lieder

There are so many talented singers now engaged in interpreting Lieder that standards have to be set high for any...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1996

Review of Mascagni L'Amico Fritz

Mascagni L'Amico Fritz

This was one of the first sets I reviewed for Gramophone. Listening to it again, I found my pleasure in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1987


 

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