Search the Reviews Database

SCHREKER Der Geburtstag der Infantin ZEMLINSKY Die Seejungfrau

Schreker’s Der Geburtstag der Infantin, based on Oscar Wilde’s short story The Birthday of the Infanta, is most commonly heard...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2021

RAVEL Bolero. La Valse. Rapsodie espagnole. Alborada del gracioso. Pavane (Trevino)

Ravel may have lived most of his life in Paris but the Basque National Orchestra are bound to wear this...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2021

POTTER Symphony No 1 (Griffiths)

Cipriani Potter these days is just a name in dusty history books recounting Britain’s heyday as ‘Das Land ohne Musik’....

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2021

NICKEL Symphony No 2 (Mitchell)

He may be best known through his sizeable output for film and television but a recent trilogy of concertos for...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2021

KENINŠ Symphonies Nos 4 & 6 (Kuzma)

Perhaps Tālivaldis Ķeniņš (1919-2008) would have had a better time of it in the record catalogue had his legacy not...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2021

GABLENZ Piano Concerto PADEREWSKI Polish Fantasy (Jonathan Plowright)

Jonathan Plowright’s exploration of Polish piano music continues in this new Hyperion release of two concertante works, one by perhaps...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2021

DVORÁK; MARTINU Cello Concertos (Victor Julien-Laferrière)

Is it useful to say that a musician has a ‘Gallic’ sound? Listening to the French cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière playing...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2021

DUTILLEUX Le Loup (Wilson)

The main work on John Wilson’s new Dutilleux disc is the 1953 ballet Le loup, commissioned by Roland Petit to...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2021

DUBUGNON Klavieriana. Chamber Symphonies 1 & 2 (Noriko Ogawa)

Richard Dubugnon writes postmodern music that has a smile on its face and its tongue in its cheek. Born in...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2021

DEBUSSY Fantasie. La Mer (Martha Argerich)

Martha Argerich was clearly on fiery form when she was captured live in May 2018 in Debussy’s early Fantaisie, a...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2021

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---