Search the Reviews Database

FINGER Music for European Courts and Concerts (Rawson)

It’s been a good year for Gottfried Finger, the Moravian-born composer who moved to London in the 1680s and made...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2020

ELGAR Cello Concerto (Sheku Kanneh-Mason)

What is it with Elgar and young musicians? The Violin Concerto found Yehudi Menuhin and Nigel Kennedy caught in the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2020

DOHNÁNYI Symphony No 1 (Paternostro)

I’ve asked this before, but is any composer since Haydn better at writing a humorous finale than Ernst von Dohnányi?...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2020

BRAHMS Double Concerto SCHUMANN Violin Concerto (Manze)

I think it’s safe to say that Schumann’s Violin Concerto is no longer considered a drab, sub-par product of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020

BIRTWISTLE Responses, Sweet Orders. Gawain's Journey

Harrison Birtwistle’s creativity into his mid-eighties has seen numerous significant works, not least a second piano concerto. Responses, Sweet Disorder...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2020

BEN-HAIM; BLOCH; KORNGOLD Cello Concertos (Wallfisch)

The subtitle of this excellent disc of cello concertos by exiled Jewish composers, ‘Voices in the Wilderness’ (almost the title...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Haitink. Suzuki)

Addressing a ‘friendly account’ of the Missa solemnis conducted by Masaaki Suzuki (6/19), Lindsay Kemp found that it left much...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1-5 (Ronald Brautigam)

Ronald Brautigam’s first recording of Beethoven’s piano concertos, a collaboration with Andrew Parrott and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, appeared in...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2020

BEAMISH; JOLAS; NEUWIRTH Trumpet Concertos

Sally Beamish’s Trumpet Concerto (2003) was inspired by Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Of course you would choose a trumpet – over...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2020

BARBER; TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concertos (Johan Dalene)

Gramophone has already singled out this young man as One to Watch (8/19) and from the shaping of his solo...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2020

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---