Review - QUAD 33/303
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
Gramophone readers may have listened to a piece of music and experienced ‘love at first hearing’. Other works might need...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 12/2013
It may seem that the only music for solo viola written in the middle of the 20th century was Hindemith’s,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2013
With this release, Markus Becker joins the mere handful of pianists who have offered Hindemith’s piano sonatas together as a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2013
Nick van Bloss is a perfectly decent pianist, whose own life story makes this achievement all the more striking: he...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2013
For many Chopin lovers, Arthur Rubinstein’s 1930s recordings of the Polonaises are the benchmark (far preferable to his sonically inferior...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2013
In Beethoven’s Op 7 Sonata, Maurizio Pollini pounces on the composer’s Allegro molto e con brio directive with joyful momentum....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2013
The discography of the Diabelli Variations is already distinguished but here’s a remarkable addition to it. Two performances are offered,...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/2013
Enterprising, engaging and full of intriguing, lesser-known names, this disc of violin-and-cello duos by Hungarian composers conceptually grows out of...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2013
It’s hard not to be a bit sad for Wigmore Hall Live that they didn’t get this one but it’s...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 12/2013
This is expressly a CD for those who enjoy a pair of cellos, beautifully played and blended together in slow...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2013
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
‘What emerges is a sense of a musician of true grit and principle, one who fought for what she...
Andrew Farach-Colton on the Channel Classics recordings of Pieter Wispelwey
Rob Cowan immerses himself in collections devoted to three composers and a quartet
David Gutman welcomes two collections released to celebrate the conductor’s career
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.