Search the Reviews Database

BUTTERWORTH Suite for String Quartet. 6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad

Even 100 years after his death on the Somme, it’s still impossible not to feel the gap left by George...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2016

BRUCKNER Symphony No 5

This concert recording of Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony follows on from the LPO’s previous releases of the Third and Seventh symphonies...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2016

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 1 - 4

Hard on the heels of Conducting the Brahms Symphonies: from Brahms to Boult, the late Christopher Dyment’s study of the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2016

CPE BACH; HASSE; HERTEL Cello Concertos

While we have the Italians to thank for first spotting the cello’s potential as a solo instrument, by the middle...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2016

AUBER Overtures

Charm and elegance are the words that invariably come to mind when Auber is mentioned, though there is, of course,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2016

ATTERBERG Symphonies Nos 7 & 9

After the success/notoriety of his Sixth Symphony in 1928, only in 1941 42 did Atterberg return to the form. Much...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2016

ADLER Symphony No 6. Cello Concerto

Samuel Adler (b1928) is a very American symphonist. He approaches the form, and orchestral writing in general, with a taut...

Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 08/2016

PUCCINI La Rondine

La rondine is often dismissed (not least by me) as one of Puccini’s weaker operas, a sort of poor hybrid...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2016

Benjamin Appl: SCHUBERT Lieder

Just a couple of months ago, Richard Fairman welcomed Benjamin Appl’s first fully fledged recital disc, a collection of Heine...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2016

HARVEY Deo

This is an essential disc not only for admirers of Jonathan Harvey’s work in general but for all those interested...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2016

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---