Search the Reviews Database

Trumpet Voluntary Music for Organ and Brass

This is an agreeable collection, but not a distinctive one, even though the playing is of a high calibre. What...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1992

Nielsen Sym No 3; etc

As their previous disc of the Second and Fifth Symphonies already indicated (12/99), Douglas Bostock and the RLPO have a...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2000

French Piano Duets

This selection of popular French piano duets, excellently played in a quiet, unforced manner, makes for an enjoyable disc. Fromentin...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 2/1999

Schubert Symphonies

When Karl Bohm’s 1963-71 Berlin Schubert cycle was first gathered together in a five-LP box in 1973, Trevor Harvey had...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Mozart Concertone; Rondo K273; Sinfonia Concertante

Yakov Kreizberg launches the Sinfonia concertante in emphatic style: a no-nonsense tempo, lashing sforzando accents, a powerful forward impetus. Mozart’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2007

Schnittke Choral Works

Simply because one doesn't associate Schnittke with a cappella choral music, this disc is a genuine ear-opener. Minnesang (1981) is...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1993

British Guitar Works

Aptly dedicated to Julian Bream, this new collection promises a bargain feast for lovers of 20th-century English guitar music. Although...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2005

Ives Songs, Vol 3

I welcomed the first two volumes of the complete songs and tried to readjust to a situation where Ives is...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/2008

Scarlatti (The) Complete Sonatas, Vol 1

Everyone has a soft spot for Scarlatti, but few, it seems, have one as yielding as Richard Lester, whose complete...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/2007

Ravier Liturgie pour un Dieu mort

For years it has been a mantra among musical Francophiles: ‘I expect it’s in the French Radio archives’, followed by...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 7/2003

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---