Search the Reviews Database

Beethoven Recomposed

Don’t let this album’s title put you off; nothing is ‘recomposed’ here. Rather, these are quite faithful arrangements for string...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2021

Occurrence - ISO Project Vol 3

‘Recurrence’, ‘Concurrence’ (3/20) and now ‘Occurrence’. The Iceland Symphony Orchestra’s three-disc survey of new orchestral music from its homeland has...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2021

YIU The World Was Once All Miracle

Now in his late forties, Raymond Yiu has gradually become known as a composer during the past decade. Born in...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2021

TAVENER Palintropos M STEWART Beyond Time and Space

One could be forgiven for thinking after the first minute or so that Tavener’s Palintropos, for piano and orchestra, was...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2021

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 9 & 10 (Noseda)

Gianandrea Noseda continues his idiomatic-sounding LSO Shostakovich cycle with another generous pairing. Conventionally paced, the Ninth’s opening Allegro retains a...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2021

MARTINAITYTE Saudade

The large-scale ensemble project In Search of Lost Beauty … (Starkland, 4/19) alerted many listeners to the intricately alluring sonic...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2021

MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Hrůša)

Not for the first time the music industry has had to adapt to new socio-economic realities and I half expected...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2021

KANCHELI Symphonies 1-7 (Kakhidze)

The symphonies of Giya Kancheli (1935-2019) constitute a truly remarkable body of work. They come out of the context of...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2021

HARRIS Symphony No 6 'Last Letter'

Both of these substantial offerings by New Zealander Ross Harris (b1945) employ texts by his countryman and favourite collaborator, Vincent...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2021

ELGAR Violin Concerto. Violin Sonata (Renaud Capuçon)

About Elgar’s Violin Concerto, Diana McVeagh once commented: ‘To listen to the Violin Concerto is at times like eavesdropping on...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2021

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---