Search the Reviews Database

Review of MOSS D'un silence... Clarinet Concerto

MOSS D'un silence... Clarinet Concerto

Chances are that Piotr Moss is the most notable living French composer born in Poland. Now in his mid-sixties, he...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2015

Review of MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 2

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

Review of HAYDN Symphonies Nos 57, 67 & 68

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

Review of HAYDN Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 11. Piano Sonatas

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

Gramophone Classical Music Awards Winner
Review of GEMINIANI La Follia HANDEL Armida abbandonata

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

Review of FUJIKURA Time Unlocked. Vanishing Point

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

Review of Alexander Krichel plays Chopin, Hummel & Mozart

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

Review of CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 2

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

Review of CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Concerto Italiano. Violin Concerto No 2

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

Review of BUTTERWORTH A Shropshire Lad STEPHAN Music for 7 Instruments

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


 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Review - QUAD 33/303

Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...

Gramophone Guides




Beethoven


Early Music


Mozart


Elgar

Gramophone Print

  • Print Edition

From £6.67 / month

Subscribe

Gramophone Digital Club

  • Digital Edition
  • Digital Archive
  • Reviews Database
  • Full website access

From £8.75 / 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.