Search the Reviews Database

BEETHOVEN; CHOPIN Piano Trios (Kremer; Dirvanauskaitė; Osokins)

It’s no surprise that one of the more offbeat offerings of the Beethoven year should come from one of the...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2021

JS BACH Goldberg Variations (arr Józef Koffler)

‘Do it on the radio’ was the title-character’s suggestion in Willy Russell’s Educating Rita when asked how to resolve the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2021

ARENSKY; MENDELSSOHN; SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trios (Trio Zeliha)

I can’t tell you much about the Trio Zeliha – the biography printed in the booklet (in French only) is...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2021

BEETHOVEN; SCHMIDT; STEPHAN; TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies (Petrenko)

Since first watching the Beethoven Ninth led by Kirill Petrenko in his much-trailed inaugural concert in charge of the Berlin...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2021

Robert Plane: Reawakened

Robert Plane has done more than his share of reawakening for the clarinet repertoire, and this latest album features three...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2021

Plaisirs illuminés

‘This CD showcases the qualities of the Camerata Bern, with which I have worked for several years now’, Patricia Kopatchinskaja...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2021

Lento Religioso: Works by Berg, Korngold, Bruckner

The majority of pieces on this generously filled release by the Amsterdam Sinfonietta under their violinist/director Candida Thompson tend towards...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2021

Gautier Capuçon: Emotions

This is Gautier Capuçon’s second album of ‘lollipops’. The first, elliptically entitled ‘Intuition’ (2/18), deftly balanced lyricism with flash and...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2021

VIVALDI The Four Seasons (Alexandra Conunova)

There’s not much about Covid-wrecked 2020 that the classical music world can be grateful for, but one genuinely positive legacy...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2021

TCHAIKOVSKY Sleeping Beauty – A Dramatic Symphony (Järvi)

Sleeping Beauty – A Dramatic Symphony? Alarm bells start to ring. One of the greatest classical ballets in the repertoire...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2021

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---