Replay (December 2024): Edith Peinemann, The French Piano School, Géza Anda & Kolisch String Quartet
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
Search the Reviews Database
JS BACH Partitas No 2 & 6. Toccata BWV911
The virtues of David Fray’s 2007 D major Partita and D minor French Suite recording (7/07) are present in his...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2013
JS BACH The English Suites
After robust, earthy Purcell and delicately characterful Louis Couperin, Richard Egarr’s Bach English Suites are carefully controlled, polished, thoughtful and...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 03/2013
JS BACH St John Passion BWV2458
Bach’s St John Passion gains more from the small-ensemble approach, I think, than its big sister, the St Matthew. Its...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2013
American Violin Concertos
For some years Menotti’s Violin Concerto, along with his other purely instrumental works, was neglected. The first recording, with Tossy...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 03/2013
WOLF-FERRARI Violin Concerto. Orchestral Music from Operas
Wolf-Ferrari’s Violin Concerto, a late work, was written for the young American virtuoso Guila Bustabo, who had enjoyed a meteoric...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 03/2013
VIVALDI Nuova Stagione
Like the sun on Monet’s haystacks or Rouen Cathedral, Vivaldi’s genius shone on his own conception of the Baroque concerto...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2013
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 2. Rococo Variations
A decent account of Tchaikovsky’s so-called Little Russian Symphony – though not so little in this expansive and beefy Cologne...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2013
TAN DUN Concerto for Orchestra. Orchestral Theatre. Symphonic Poem on Three Notes
As the title implies, the Symphonic Poem is based on three notes. Not particularly interesting notes; just the first three...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 03/2013
SZYMANOWSKI Symphonies Nos 2 & 4. Concert Overture
The whole Szymanowski landscape is here, from the Strauss-infatuated Concert Overture to the folk-inflected Bartókian pianism of the exotic Fourth...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2013
SCHUMANN Symphonies 1-4. 'Schumann at Pier 2'
This is the sort of set that makes me grateful that classical recordings are still being made. As a refresher...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2013
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Joan Sutherland: The Complete Decca Recordings
Tim Ashley hears the first instalment in a reissue of Joan Sutherland’s complete recordings
Review - Roberto Alagna: All’Opera
Mark Pullinger enjoys a survey of the ever-youthful tenor’s EMI recordings
Box-set Round-up: December 2024 (Poschner, Knappertsbusch, Schaller)
Rob Cowan listens to sets of Bruckner and Schubert symphonies, plus a pair of pianists
Review - Colin Davis in Amsterdam and London
David Gutman revisits the British conductor’s recordings with two major orchestras
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.