Why make a high-end CD player in 2025?
Launching a high-end CD player may seem like a brave endeavour in what is increasingly...
‘Believe me, my Quintet Op 64 will make the rounds!’ declared Max Reger. Oh dear. As Parnassus Akademie’s pianist Kolja...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017
No sooner had I commented on the unusual Prokofiev/Rachmaninov coupling in my Moser/Korobeinikov review (in the February issue) than this...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2017
Interestingly, the first time Paganini’s 24 Caprices were recorded in any form was in 1940 with Ferdinand David’s piano accompaniments...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2017
Mozart is widely held to have detested the flute, despite the fact that he wrote a whole opera about one...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2017
Maxwell Davies’s output for strings is remembered chiefly for his 10 ‘Naxos’ String Quartets. However, the cycle represents only the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2017
A misty incantation, a swirl of sound with a whole-tone flavour: if it comes as a surprise to discover Joseph...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017
‘His own compositions are more remarkable for sound workmanship and a cultured taste than for charm or warmth of inspiration’,...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017
I’ll just say it: I don’t think any composer since the 18th century did fast, humorous finales more entertainingly than...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017
This disc, like the Cypress Quartet’s previous releases on Avie, was recorded at Skywalker Sound in California – although these...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2017
The comparative novelties here are Borodin’s Piano Quintet in C minor and his Cello Sonata in B minor – comparative,...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2017
Launching a high-end CD player may seem like a brave endeavour in what is increasingly...
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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.