Search the Reviews Database

MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 2

Putting this CD on ‘blind’, and not expecting a CD fill-up to this of all symphonies, the gently sustained opening...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2015

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 57, 67 & 68

Nicholas McGegan and his San Francisco-based forces delve into a trio of symphonies that have been largely neglected outside of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2015

HAYDN Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 11. Piano Sonatas

Anne-Marie McDermott relishes Haydn’s fingery writing in this selection of sonatas and concertos, vividly inflecting phrases and taking an imaginative...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2015

GEMINIANI La Follia HANDEL Armida abbandonata

There is no direct evidence that Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762) studied with Corelli in Rome. We can safely say he was...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2015

FUJIKURA Time Unlocked. Vanishing Point

Dai Fujikura (b1977) is a prolific composer with an already impressive discography, his work having been performed by ensembles throughout...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2015

Alexander Krichel plays Chopin, Hummel & Mozart

Four works for piano and orchestra by Chopin, Mozart and Hummel on a single disc. Different. Intriguing. Sony signed Alexander...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2015

CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 2

Nelson Freire partners Chopin’s Second Concerto (his early recording of the First has already appeared – 11/14) with a solo...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2015

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Concerto Italiano. Violin Concerto No 2

Tully Potter’s booklet-notes accurately set the scene as far as the composition of non-operatic music in 19th-century Italy was concerned....

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2015

BUTTERWORTH A Shropshire Lad STEPHAN Music for 7 Instruments

This recording marks the centenary of the untimely death of Rudi Stephan, a composer of remarkable talent who was killed...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2015

BUSH Small Pieces for Orchestra

Geoffrey Bush (1920 98) was still a schoolboy at Lancing College (and already taking informal lessons with the composer John...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2015

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---