Echoes of Genius: From the Dawn of Electrical Recording to Hidden Violin Treasures
Rare and revelatory, these archival releases span a century of recording history – from the...
Search the Reviews Database
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring. The Firebird Suite (Bernard)
There was a time when The Rite of Spring put an orchestra through its paces, and the palpable effort of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
KNEHANS Unfinished Earth. Tempest
There are many really fine American composers for orchestra at the moment, though few have the international presence of, say,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2018
RACHMANINOV Variations on a Theme of Corelli LISZT Paganini Etudes
Many pianists, I suspect, would envy the long résumé of recital dates, chamber music collaborations and teaching credits mentioned in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018
HAYDN Piano Sonatas Vol 2 (McDermott)
Anne-Marie McDermott’s second release for Bridge devoted to Haydn further testifies to her masterful affinity for the composer’s style, as...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018
BUCH String Quartets: From the River Flow the Stars
A cursory glance at the titles of these string quartets – all part of larger compositional series – might suggest...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2018
BERLIOZ Requiem (Falletta)
The ideal way to take in the wonders of the Berlioz Requiem is to attend a performance in a concert...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2018
JL ADAMS everything that rises
Everything That Rises (2017) is John Luther Adams’s fourth string quartet, following close on the heels of untouched (2015). In...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2018
Filippo Mineccia: Siface; L’amor castrato
Filippo Mineccia’s new recital takes as its starting point the circumstances surrounding the death, on May 29, 1697, of the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2018
WAGNER Das Rheingold (Elder)
The third instalment of the Hallé’s slowly assembling Ring cycle – this episode from a concert and rehearsals in November...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2018
VERDI Un giorno di regno (Bosch)
Un giorno di regno was Verdi’s only opera buffa, an early work composed in 1840 and a far cry from...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2018
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Myra Hess: a national treasure revisited in Jessica Duchen’s biography
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Mahler in miniature: Stephen Downes delivers a witty, wry portrait for the Critical Lives series
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Michel Béroff at 75: Erato's monumental box-set celebrates a brilliant and versatile pianist
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
Fell Audio debuts with British-made hi-fi duo offering style, substance, and value
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
New box-sets: Beethoven from Barenboim, Arrau and Klemperer, plus Irmgard Seefried Edition
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
Gramophone Guides
Follow us
Gramophone Digital Club
- Digital Edition
- Digital Archive
- Reviews Database
- Full website access
From £8.75 / month
Subscribe
Gramophone Full Club
- Print Edition
- Digital Edition
- Digital Archive
- Reviews Database
- Full website access
From £11.00 / month
Subscribe
If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information.