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Lieder Recital Waltraud Meier
Schubert and Schumann are not the first names to spring to mind when Waltraud Meier is mentioned, and none of...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1998
Dvorák Kate and the Devil
Kate and the Devil has never fared very well outside Czech lands, where after a slow start it has been...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1994
Bach at Zwolle
The ghost of Schweitzer hovers around this recording beyond the fact that it is dedicated to the Albert Schweitzer Institute...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1997
Suk Fantastic Scherzo; Summer Tale
Completed in 1909, A Summer's Tale is probably the most easily assimilated of the four large-scale orchestral works conceived by...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1999
L. Hofmann Concertos
The Leopold Hofmann revival continues. This time, from a composer long represented on the Gramophone Database only by...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1999
Boulez in Rehersal
The hectic international conducting schedule maintained by Pierre Boulez over the past decade has resulted in several live performances on...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 7/2003
Vive Le Roy
This CD admirably highlights the close relationship between French music and Bach's compositions. Ponsford has contributed an informative and scholarly...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 5/2000
Dvorák Symphony 6
Vaclav Neumann's way with early Dvorak is hardly a coaxing one, and indeed his forceful directness in the first movement...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1985
Harpsichord Recital
Spend an evening in the company of Kenneth Gilbert. You will discover through his playing a man of substance and...
Reviewed in issue 6/1988
Rorem Day Music-Night Music
I welcomed Rorem's chamber music of the 1980s when Winter Pages and Bright Music appeared together on New Albion (10/92)....
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/1994
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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