Search the Reviews Database

MOSZKOWSKI From Foreign Lands - Rediscovered Orchestral Works

Why concert promoters and record labels have such trouble with Moszkowski I’ll never know, especially his once-celebrated orchestral music. For...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2016

MAIER Violin Concerto. Piano Quartet

Reading Erik Nilsson’s biographical summary of Amanda Maier’s short life (1853 94) and its aftermath – together with his ‘open...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2016

MAHLER Symphony No 10 (Gamzou)

In the wake of Thomas Dausgaard’s remarkably cogent reading of the Deryck Cooke ‘performing version’ of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony, there...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2016

MAHLER Symphony No 2

This is such a bewildering mix of the prosaic, the indifferent and the inconsistent that it is hard to know...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2016

KHACHATURIAN Symphony No 2. 3 Concert Arias

London bus syndrome strikes: you wait over 20 years for a new recording of Khachaturian’s Second Symphony – dubbed ‘Symphony...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2016

HILL; BOYLE Piano Concertos

Few of us, I suspect, will have encountered either of these Australian composers, so a brief introduction is in order....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2016

HAUBENSTOCK-RAMATI Konstellationen

This is a moment worth savouring, because discs documenting work by the Polish composer Roman Haubenstock-Ramati (1919 94) come along...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2016

GRIEG Piano Concerto. Lyric Pieces

When Alice Sara Ott’s Liszt Transcendental Etudes appeared a few years back (3/10), I was mightily impressed. But the nearly...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2016

ELGAR Enigma Variations. In the South (Alassio)

Martyn Brabbins masterminds an expansive, ideally flexible and notably unflustered reading of Elgar’s In the South, one which quarries this...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2016

DIEPENBROCK Symphonic Poems

The Dutch composer Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921) was one of music’s great amateurs. An academic classicist by profession, he was self-taught...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2016

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---