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
DEBUSSY Preludes Books 1 & 2
Francesco Piemontesi, who numbers Brendel, Perahia, Weissenberg and Ousset among his teachers, offers a masterly account of Debussy’s Préludes. Yet...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2015
CHOPIN Complete Mazurkas
In a recently posted internet interview, Russian-born Dmitri Alexeev discusses his role as a juror of the Chopin Competition and...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2015
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Opp 14, 22, 26, 27, 28 & 49
Paavali Jumppanen’s latest double-CD release proves the most consistently engaging so far in his Beethoven sonata cycle. The rhythmically astute...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2015
JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin
A frustrating issue. Midori’s careful and polished addition to the extensive catalogue of recordings of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 12/2015
Dancing Day: Music for Christmas
The Cambridge choral tradition has continued in the US, thanks to the advocacy of John Scott, organ scholar at St...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2015
The Jean Sibelius Edition - 150th Anniversary Box set
Few pioneering recordings from any era burn with greater passionate intensity or recreative spark than those set down in London...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2015
SHOSTAKOVICH Michelangelo Poems LISZT Petraca Sonnets
Dmitri Hvorostovsky has always been just as comfortable on the recital platform as on the operatic stage, a state of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2015
Minoritenkonvent: Manuscript XIV 726 from the Convent of the Minorites
<p>Today Biber is probably the best known of the mid- to late‑17th-century violin virtuoso...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2015
HANDEL Partenope
‘[Senesino] put me in a sweat in telling me that Parthenope was likely to be brought on the stage, for...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2015
JS BACH Magnificat. Christmas Cantata 63
We have got used to the idea now that, coming from the Dunedin Consort, core works will not be quite...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue:
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.