Search the Reviews Database

BRAHMS String Sextets (Grand Trio Vilnius)

Piano trios have cause to be grateful that Brahms’s loyal friend Theodor Kirchner (1823-1903) did such a thoroughly professional job...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2024

BRAHMS The String Quartets (Quatuor Agate)

The namesake of France’s Quatuor Agate is an ornamental gemstone. ‘Agate’ also alludes to the group’s affinity for Brahms, whose...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 04/2024

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas SCHUMANN Fünf Stücke im Volkston (Christian Poltera)

Rob Cowan recently remarked that Casals and Horszowski make Brahms’s Second Cello Sonata ‘sound truly the Eroica of cello sonatas’...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 04/2024

Beethoven for Three

My colleague Andrew Farach-Colton ended his review of the previous volume, of the Pastoral and the Piano Trio Op 1...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2024

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2. Piano Concerto No 2 (Kirill Gerstein)

For such a starry orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic has a pretty threadbare Rachmaninov catalogue. Their only symphony cycle was with...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024

Neujahrskonzert 2024

Across the years the New Year’s Day concert from Vienna’s Musikverein has been conducted by the crème de la crème...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024

Metamorphosis

Edmund Finnis describes his Hymn (after Byrd) – an arrangement for string orchestra of the fourth movement of his First...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024

YSAŸE Violin Concerto in E minor. Poeme concertant (Philippe Graffin)

Two world premieres from Eugène Ysaÿe might seem like a bonanza, but that’s what we have here: a full-scale violin...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2024

KALKBRENNER; TELLEFSEN Piano Concertos (Howard Shelley)

There are lovely moments in Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen’s two piano concertos. The First (1847 48), Jeremy Nicholas tells us...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5 PROKOFIEV Symphony No 1 (A Jansons)

Back in September 1971 I attended a concert at London’s Royal Festival Hall by what was then the Leningrad Philharmonic...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2024

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---